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Under what conditions does intergroup contact lead to conflict? We provide a novel answer to this question by … highlighting the role of reputation mechanisms in sustaining cooperation. Reputational concerns can deter defection in one … cooperation within a group, we show theoretically that interactions of individuals from a punishment-based culture with those from …
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interventions to support democratic elections. Yet little evidence exists on whether elections enhance the domestic legitimacy of …
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Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and … cooperation trust hold up remarkably well on a cross-section of countries …
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Improving the efficiency of tax collection is important for development and fairness purposes. I study the Audit Exchange Information Agreements, which are agreements between the states and the U.S. federal government to exchange information about income tax audit plans and techniques, signed...
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Central banks have evolved for close to four centuries. This paper argues that for two centuries central banks caught up to the strategies followed by the leading central banks of the era; the Bank of England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Federal Reserve in the twentieth...
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We analyze a seldom used, but highly promising form of rights-based management over common pool resources that involves the self-selection of heterogeneous fishermen into sectors. The fishery management regime assigns one portion of an overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the...
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Using data from the National Basketball Association (NBA), we examine whether patterns of workplace cooperation occur … levels of interracial cooperation can occur in a setting where workers are operating in a highly visible setting with strong …
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We characterize the evolution over time of a network of credit relations among financial agents as a system of coupled stochastic processes. Each process describes the dynamics of individual financial robustness, while the coupling results from a network of liabilities among agents. The average...
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To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation …
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This paper argues that if policymakers seek to enhance global liquidity, then the international community must provide …
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