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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Free Rider"”.
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Recruiting and maintaining dairy cooperative members: a strategy for reducing the free rider problem
… all dairy farmers in the market. The presence of free riders, people who benefit from these marketwide services without paying any of the costs of these services, can jeopardize the existence of the cooperative. Understanding why members were attracted to the cooperative and why independents …
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La racionalidad del free rider en bienes públicos provistos por el Estado. Una investigación sobre la conducta free rider del grupo de contribuyentes morosos de la Tasa de Servicios Urbanos de la ciudad de Mar del Plata
El problema del Free Rider emerge en bienes públicos cuando, a raíz de la no exclusión, el sujeto racional y maximizador de utilidad percibe que puede beneficiarse de los servicios que le son provistos sin contribuir a sostener su costo de producción. En la ciudad de Mar del Plata, la Tasa por …
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Capacity, entry deterrence, and horizontal merger
This dissertation examines the free-rider problem of entry deterrence, the profitability of a horizontal merger, and the effects of a horizontal merger on the outsiders’ profits and industry prices, in the markets where firms' capacity costs are sunk. We investigate the free-rider problem of entry …
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Free riding, contribution behavior, and public goods: the case of the Virginia nongame wildlife tax checkoff
This study examines the free rider effect and other voluntary contribution behavior in an actual public goods funding situation. Because the traditional neoclassical economic model of consumption behavior does not adequately explain behavior with respect to voluntary contribution to the funding of …
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Incentivizing Data Contributions in Decentralized Collaborative Learning
… protocol. We provide a quantitative analysis of free-rider behavior under decentralized protocols and compare the amount of information collected with decentralized protocols against that in the centralized protocol.
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Effects of Students' Identity Salience on Their Attitudes Toward and Experience in Face-to-face Peer Collaborative Learning Activities
… learning problems including group tension, the free-rider effect, and role taking in relation to students' identity salience. Findings of this study can be used to support further investigations on personalized student grouping for effective collaborative learning.
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Are Countries in Environmental Cooperation Concerned About Relative Gains?
… national interest of countries and the free-rider problem. However, this thesis argues that relative gains is a more decisive factor that influences the decision of countries in international arrangements. It hypothesizes that countries in environmental cooperation are concerned about …
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Community carrots and social sticks : why the poor vote in a dominant-party system
… esteem "carrots" and social "sticks" to overcome free-rider incentives and increase the likelihood of receiving services. The norm is strongest in less politically-competitive areas, precisely where the puzzle of participation is most obvious. At the individual level, those who rely on their local …
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Implications of a Universal Healthcare System in the United States: Why Individual Health Is Now of National Concern
… that I endorse, although designed to address the free-rider problem recognized David Winkler, shows that Winkler's solution goes too far by indiscriminately punishing every unhealthy individual within a universal healthcare system.
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Interactive media and social exchange of market information
… collectivities. As a possible solution to the free-rider problem in virtual communities, an alternative communication structure based on a network of private communication spaces (in contrast to the typical structure based on a public electronic bulletin board) is suggested and tested in a …
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Essays in industrial organization
… performance in spite of the temptation to be a free rider. My analysis uses Mahalanobis matching to compare each route's performance with the best matching control flight, taking advantage of the large volume of flight data available. In the third chapter I examine the role of reputation in an …
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Variable energy pricing in stand alone community hybrid energy systems
… of such an approach. However, susceptibility to free-rider behaviour and insensitivity to household elasticity levels suggest the need for additional/supplementary forms of financial incentivisation.
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The perceived role of community involvement in the mega-event hosting process : a case study of the Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
… This tendency has been described as the free rider problem. It is believed that people, in general, are reluctant to participate in a process to deliver a collective good if they are reasonably assured that others will participate and be successful in obtaining the desired result. …
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International Labour Law as a Global Public Good: Enhancing Labour Regulation in an Era of Globalisation
… labour regulation) and mitigate the consequent ‘free-rider’ phenomenon (i.e., labour rights violations). This theoretical framework is tested through a comprehensive legal analysis of the labour rights situation in Qatar and the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) ongoing proceedings in the …
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Investigating the Effects of Corporate Governance of Banks in Nigeria: A Grounded Theory Approach
… is presented as a tool with which to address free-rider issues. The use of GT is extended to explore the phenomena underlying corporate governance in the given context, providing a better understanding of the influence of culture and leadership in corporate governance theorising. Finally, this …
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Two Essays of Other-Regarding Preferences' Influence on Social Decision Making
… retaliate by polluting becomes credible. Then, free-rider governments (non-signatories) on the margin surrender to the implicit threat and participate in the treaty. Furthermore, including reciprocity reverses the usual result that there is an inverse relationship between the marginal benefit …
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Strategic decisions under uncertainty: Supplier quality improvement and exit in duopoly
… part of the problem so that a buyer strives to free-ride on the other buyer’s investment in the shared supplier. Moreover, because the improved quality deteriorates over time by organizational forgetting, buyers should make such an investment decision repeatedly. This problem is thus a repeated …
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A review and appraisal of the "social responsibility hypothesis" of corporate behavior
… if individuals did becomes more altruistic, the free rider problem of large number settings would inhibit most private efforts to provide public goods. Managerial support for the concept of social responsibility was analyzed, and it was found to be very consistent with expectations based on the …
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Three Essays on Dynamic Contests
… contest designs that can fully resolve the free-rider problem in group contests. Chapter 3 investigates optimal contest design with multiple heterogeneous players. We allow the contest designer to have one or multiple/mixed objectives, which includes the following parts: the total effort; …
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Essays on the Economics of Education
… in the group-based scheme, which mitigates free-rider incentives. Based on this result, I estimate the structural parameters of my model to recover the optimal incentive schemes that maximize the expected value of student achievement minus the expected payment to teachers. I find that an …
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