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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"free riding"”.
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Is free riding affecting market discipline in the Euro sovereign bond market?
… Thus, there appears to be an element of "free-riding" by those governments who feel there is an unwritten bail-out in the workings of the system (despite official pronouncements to the contrary). Therefore my research investigates whether monetary union has weakened the disciplinary …
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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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Adding Tournament to Tournament: The Interactive Effect of Team and Individual Incentives
… social identity theories, I examine whether both free-riding and collusion problems can be simultaneously mitigated when a combination of individual and team incentive systems are used. Consistent with the extended Nitzan's (1991) nested contest economic model and social identity theory (SIT), I …
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Economic Feasibility of a Biological Control Cottage Industry in Niger
… beneficial insects as a means of preventing free-riding. With free-riding as a prominent concern for businesses, this study also provides an econometric analysis of the factors that affect farmer's willingness-to-pay for beneficial insects.
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Justice, Sanctioning, and Retaliation In Public Goods Dilemmas
… often at some expense of self-interest, or to free-ride off others' cooperation. A dilemma thus ensues in that the individually rational strategy of free-riding leads to failure in the group's efforts to achieve the desired ends of its members. In this dissertation, I focus on actors' …
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The evolution of exploitation through mimicry
… they perceive a shared social or kinship origin, free riding on signals indicating such a relationship will be evolutionarily favoured. The aim of this thesis is to defend these claims, both through analysis of previously published work and through the presentation of empirical research and …
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Three Essays on Return Predictability and Decentralized Investment Management
… The two principals can choose competition or free-riding. Under public contracting, competition is more likely to dominate free-riding. Under private contracting, however, free-riding becomes more important. In either case, SBS could generate better performance than standalone management.</p>
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A framework for cascading payment and content exchange within P2P systems
… more notably, the issues of copyright violation, free-riding, the lack of participation incentives and the difficulties associated with the provision of payment services within a decentralised heterogeneous and ad hoc environment. Further issues directly relevant to content exchange also arise …
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Essays on Salience in Coordination Games: Gender, Punishment and Communication
… concentrated on the effects of punishment when free riding is a possibility (for example Fehr & Gächter, 2000, Abbink et al., 2010) and here we are able to report results from an experiment where free riding is not a possibility. In the third chapter we investigate the effects of communication …
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Essays in microeconomic theory
… is paid to how asymmetric information and free-riding exert strong influences on t.he behavior of individuals. In the first chapter, a simple model of open-source software development is presented. It is found that either too little development or redundant development effort can occur. …
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Essays in Behavioral Game Theory
… contribute too little, despite the absence of free-riding incentives. In a laboratory experiment, subjects indeed under-contribute relative to equilibrium. Using modified games with different belief conditioning effects, I verify that under-contribution is due to improper conditioning of …
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Essays on Team-based Incentives
… creates many challenges, especially the “free-riding” problem. In current dissertation, I provide the evidence from the laboratory and field experiments to answer several critical questions faced by managers: Given the potency of free-riding and without task complementary, could team-based …
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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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Incentive Structures, Labour Performance, and Fruit Quality: Panel Evidence from a South African Deciduous Fruit Operation (2017–2019)
… emphasises collective responsibility may reduce free-riding, improve care during harvesting, and strengthen alignment of worker behaviour around quality. Policy implications include the need for structured piloting of group schemes, integration of incentive design with monitoring systems, and …
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Investigating the extent to which students share tacit knowledge using moblie phones in group projects
… of leadership, time and scheduling of workload, free riding, individual and social barriers, lack of team development, lack of social interaction, lack of motivation, inadequate rewards, skills and attitude problems or social loafing. The integration of the mobile context and technologies in …
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Market-Based Coordination and Auditing Mechanisms for Self-Interested Multi-Robot Systems
… that the auditing mechanism can discourage free-riding and cheating attempts effectively without harming the popularity of systems with auditing mechanisms. The analysis shows that a strategy where nodes behave honestly and contribute properly is evolutionarily stable and the simulations …
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Role of Social Preferences and Coalitions in a Public Goods Game
… creation of the public good, which is known as free-riding. Interestingly, contribution levels in reality surpass predictions suggested by theoretical findings. To understand and assuage the free-riding problem, we study a public good game where individuals in a society form small groups or …
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Betting on Global Warming : The Impact of Insurance Instruments on Mitigation of Climate Change
… defined on the climate state can reduce free riding behaviour with respect to abatement of greenhouse gases. This claim originates from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Second Assessment Report in 1995. However, there is no formal analysis of this claim in the literature. …
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Re-engineering knowledge networks for development
… provision of this public good due the problem of free-riding and lack of mechanisms to mobilize collective action. This thesis provides guidelines and recommendations for the restructuring of incentives and organizational policies and the re-engineering of the technology to overcome this barrier. …
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