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Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2014

Cooperating behavior may be fostered by personality traits re ecting either favorable inclination to others or willingness to comply with norms and rules. We test the relative importance of these two factors in an experiment where subjects provide real mental effort in two treatments with...

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Reputation and Cooperation in Defence

Hugh Jones, David; Zultan, Ro'i - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2011

Surprisingly high levels of within-group cooperation are observed in conflict situations. Ex- periments confirm that … external threats lead to higher cooperation. The psychological literature suggests proximate explanations in the form of group … cooperation is a rational response to an external threat. We introduce a model in which groups vary in their willing- ness to help …

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Cooperation and Personality

Proto, Eugenio - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2013

Cooperating and trusting behavior may be explained by preferences over social outcomes (people care about others, are unselfish and help- ful), or attitudes to work and social responsibilities (plans have to be carried out, norms have to be followed). If the first hypothesis is true, Agreeable-...

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A Theory of Cooperation through Social Division, with Evidence from Nepal

Choy, James - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2013

Informal, kin-based groups play an important role in developing country economies. I point out two facts: communities … model in which division of the community into non-interacting groups allows agents to support higher levels of cooperation … should be less cooperation between members of groups that make up a larger percentage of their communities. I discuss …

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Unfavorable Land Endowment, Cooperation, and Reversal of Fortune

Litina, Anastasia - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2013

the effect of natural land productivity on the desirable level of cooperation in the agricultural sector. In early stages … of development, unfavorable land endowment enhanced the economic incentive for cooperation in the creation of … effects of cooperation on the intensive margin of agriculture, low land productivity countries lagged behind during the …

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Contracts and cooperation: The relative failure of the Irish dairy industry in the late nineteenth century reconsidered

Henriksen, Ingrid; McLaughlin, Eoin; Sharp, Paul - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2015

proprietary sector which was opposed to cooperation, reinforced the already difficult conditions for dairying in Ireland due to …

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Contracts and cooperation: The relative failure of the Irish dairy industry in the late nineteenth century reconsidered

Henriksen, Ingrid; McLaughlin, Eoin; Sharp, Paul - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2015

proprietary sector which was opposed to cooperation, reinforced the already difficult conditions for dairying in Ireland due to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011188911

Cooperation and Personality

Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2014

Cooperating behavior may be fostered by personality traits reflecting either favorable inclination to others or willingness to comply with norms and rules. We test the relative importance of these two factors in an experiment where subjects provide real mental effort in two treatments with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011144216

Constructing Social Division to Support Cooperation: Theory and Evidence from Nepal

Choy, James - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2013

groups find that they can support lower levels of cooperation in the future. The model explains why agents may be punished by … interacting with members of some groups but not others. I test the empirical implication that there should be less cooperation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011144232

DYNAMIC CLUB FORMATION WITH COORDINATION

Arnold, Tone; Wooders, Myrna - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2002

We present a dynamic model of jurisdiction formation in a society of identical people. The process is described by a Markov chain that is defined by myopic optimization on the part of the players. We show that the process will converge to a Nash equilibrium club structure. Next, we allow for...

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