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The Power of Requests in a Redistribution Game: An Experimental Study

open access: yesGames, 2019
In most situations of voluntary contribution people are willing to give at the beginning, however contribution rates decay over time. In a new setup we introduce non-enforceable sharing rules, as requests, in a repeated redistribution game (called tip ...
Riccardo Pedersini   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inefficient Group Organization as Optimal Adaption to Dominant Environments [PDF]

open access: yes
Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially.
Andreas Wagener, Martin Kolmar
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Neuropathic Pain and Enlarged Nerves in Adult Noonan Syndrome and Noonan Syndrome With Multiple Lentigines: Health‐Related Quality of Life and Neurologic Symptoms

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Noonan syndrome (NS) and the clinically related Noonan syndrome with multiple lentigines (NSML) belong to the group of RASopathies. Although pain is not mentioned as a characteristic feature, it has recently been reported as a clinically significant problem.
Jos M. T. Draaisma   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Incentive Mechanism to Mitigate the Free-riding in VoD Streaming over Hybrid CDN-P2P Networks

open access: yesInternational Journal of Information and Communication Technology Research, 2018
Peer organization is one of the most challenging issues in peer-to-peer (P2P) video streaming systems. Free-riding reduces the overall performance of these systems.
Abdollah Ghaffari Sheshjavani   +2 more
doaj  

Status-Quo-Bias and Voluntary Contributions: Can Lab Experiments Parallel Real World Outcomes for Generic Advertising? [PDF]

open access: yes
Many commodities have programs assessing producers for generic advertising. Ads such as "Got Milk?" and the "Incredible Edible Egg" are a public good for producers. Most of these programs originally used the Voluntary Contribution Mechanism, but have now
Kaiser, Harry M.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Understanding Youth Assaults of Police Officers in Australia: A Power Threat Meaning Framework Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores youth violence towards police officers in Australia through the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) to better understand the underlying factors contributing to such violence; focusing on power dynamics, childhood adversity, and trauma.
Dimitra Lattas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The incentives to participate in and the stability of international climate coalitions: a game theoretic approach using the WITCH Model [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper uses WITCH, an integrated assessment model with a game-theoretic structure, to explore the prospects for, and the stability of broad coalitions to achieve ambitious climate change mitigation action. Only coalitions including all large emitting
Carlo Carraro   +5 more
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

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