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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Public good game"”.
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The role of gender, ethnicity and harambee in corruption : experimental evidence from Kenya
This thesis uses experimental games which are novel in the Kenyan context to examine the extent to which individual attributes such as gender and ethnicity might influence the propensity to offer or accept a bribe, or to punish individuals who engage in such activities. In addition, this thesis …
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The heritability of history: how inherited status affects cooperative behaviour in public goods games
… was shown to cause significantly different public good game contribution behaviour for various types of individual. While inheritance status improved cooperation among those who inherited a high status in groups with only others who inherited high endowments, the inheritance frame is …
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Role of Social Preferences and Coalitions in a Public Goods Game
The boon of public goods to a society is its inclusive nature where no individual can be restricted from enjoying its fruits. However, this very feature generates proclivity among individuals in the society to escape paying their share towards creation of the public good, which is known as …
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On Individual Decision Making and Responsibility for Others
… since the first appearance of the dictator game, which pointed out that, when people have to allocate resources and determine their own and others' payoffs, they decide accordingly to some well-defined distributional preferences. These, depending on the decisional setting and on individuals, …
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Decision-Making Analyses of Farmers in Rural China Regarding Forestry Under Different Contexts of Risk: Investment, Cooperation, and Provision of Public Goods
… framework to explain farmers’ provision of public goods with framed risks using reciprocity and anxiety as two belief-dependent motives and verify the hypotheses using data from a framed field experiment. I discover that farmers’ decisions to provide public goods are dependent on their …
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Behavioural economic applications to climate change mitigation and adaptation: public good games and risk experiments
… The papers in Section 1 utilise framed public good games to focus on two different aspects of the public goods dilemma synonymous with climate change mitigation. In this context, the first paper 'What is fair? An experimental guide to climate negotiations' examines the degree to which …
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Preferences and Cooperation
… A benchmark result in the evolutionary games literature is that a preference for reciprocity will evolve if preferences are observable (at zero cost), since reciprocators can cooperate with each other rather than with materialists, thereby achieving a fitness advantage. I investigate how …
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Economic Growth and Public Debt: Beyond Debt-Thresholds. Theoretical and Empirical Issues.
The idea that public debt may represent a burden for the economic system as a whole has distant origins and focuses on who and how should pay for debt, and with what consequences on the economy. Nevertheless, particularly influential both for academic research and the implementation of the fiscal …