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Transboundary Spillovers and Decentralization of Environmental Policies [PDF]
Most US federal environmental policies allow states to assume responsibility for implementation and enforcement of regulations; states with this responsibility are referred to as "authorized'' or having "primacy.'' Although such decentralization may have
Hilary Sigman
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Social learning and voluntary cooperation among like-minded people [PDF]
Many people contribute to public goods but stop doing so once they experience free riding. We test the hypothesis that groups whose members know that they are composed only of ‘like-minded’ cooperators are able to maintain a higher cooperation level than
Christian Thöni, Simon Gächter
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A theory of the Law and Policy of Intellectual Property - Building a New Framework
Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2009 Two conflicting theories explain and justify the foundation of intellectual property.1 At one extreme, natural rights theory justifies the foundation of intellectual property rights to be based on the natural right that originates from the act of ...
Yoshiyuki Tamura, Nari Lee
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A new e-commerce model for free-riding behavior in decentralized supply chains
Journal of Business Economics and ManagementThe complexity of consumer free-riding behavior is a current significant problem, as modern online purchasing channels sharply compete with the traditional ones.
Andreea Marin-Pantelescu +4 more
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Coordination of Advertising Free Riding in Hybrid Channel Supply Chain
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2016 Advertising is a crucial tool for demand creation and market expansion; enterprises in supply chain use it widely to increase sales and improve profits.
Jin Sha, Aihu Wang, Ting Lv, Wenling Wu
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No Derivative Shareholder Suits in Europe – A Model of Percentage Limits and Collusion [PDF]
We address one of the cardinal puzzles of European corporate law: the lack of derivate share-holder suits. We explain this phenomenon on the basis of percentage limits which require share-holders to hold a minimum amount of shares in order to bring a ...
Kristoffel Grechenig, Michael Sekyra
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Leadership and Gender: An Experiment [PDF]
We present an information based model of leadership in a setting that exhibits the familiar problems of free riding and coordination failure. Leaders have superior information about the value of the project in hand and can send a costly signal to their ...
Mana Komai, Philip J. Grossman
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Moral Judgments in Social Dilemmas: How Bad is Free Riding? [PDF]
In the last thirty years, economists and other social scientists have investigated people’s normative views on distributive justice. Here we study people’s normative views in social dilemmas, which underlie many situations of economic and social ...
Michalis Drouvelis +3 more
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Functional morphology of the pharyngeal teeth of the ocean sunfish, Mola mola
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Many fish use a set of pharyngeal jaws in their throat to aid in prey capture and processing, particularly of large or complex prey. In this study—combining dissection, CT scanning, histology, and performance testing—we demonstrate a novel use of pharyngeal teeth in the ocean sunfish (Mola mola), a species for which pharyngeal jaw anatomy had ...
Benjamin Flaum +3 more
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A Survey on Free Riding in Wireless Mesh Network
Dianxin kexue, 2014 A large amounts of surveys results show that free riding is a common phenomenon in today's network. Because of wireless mesh networks with limited bandwidth, a large number of free riders lead to network congestion so that will impact the performance of ...
Guangxue Yue +3 more
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