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Journal of Ethics and Social PhilosophyCan Kantians distinguish unfair free riding from innocent coordination? If they cannot, the whole approach is flawed. This paper develops a novel solution. Free riders, as I will put it, fail to make their conduct conditional on other people’s preferences. They refuse to do their part regardless of what others prefer.
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Palaeopathology and horse domestication: the case of some Iron Age horses horn the Altai Mountains, Siberia [PDF]
, 2000 We discuss the use of palaeopathological indicators in horse skeletons as potential sources I of evidence about the use of horses for riding and traction.
Bailey, G. +3 more
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Acque SotterraneeThe technical approach to water management and the lack of attention to the water issue as a socio-ecological issue have left the problem of illegal well-drilling and over-exploitation of groundwater unsolved.
Asef Orang +2 more
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Product Quality in the Food Chain: Do Cooperatives Offer High Quality Products? [PDF]
Cooperatives and investor-owned firms are alternative forms of business organisation that coexist and compete in many markets. The theoretical literature has identified a number of comparative advantages and disadvantages of cooperatives.
Pennerstorfer, Dieter +1 more
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Potential Failure of an International Environmental Agreement under Asymmetric Information [PDF]
The free-riding issue is generally considered to be the biggest obstacle in the success of an international environmental agreement. Even without free-riding incentives, however, asymmetric information can pose a potentially significant threat in ...
Norimichi Matsueda
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Brothers in Arms - An Experiment on the Alliance Puzzle [PDF]
Our experimental analysis of alliances in conflicts leads to three main findings. First, even in the absence of repeated interaction, direct contact or communication, free-riding among alliance members is far less pronounced than what would be expected ...
Changxia Ke +2 more
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Transparency, Inequity Aversion, and the Dynamics of Peer Pressure in Teams: Theory and Evidence [PDF]
We provide an explanation for peer pressure in teams based on inequity aversion. Analyzing a two-period model with two agents, we find that the effect of inequity aversion strongly depends on the information structure. When contributions are unobservable,
Mohnen, Alwine +2 more
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, 1996 Free-riding is methodologically puzzling. It is at the same time important and often not observed as an actual phenomenon. The paper explores the possibility of treating free riding as an underlying or causal mechanism. As such, free riding is to be treated as part of the real world rather than of the world of models or theories.
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Overcoming Free Riding: A Cross Country Analysis of Firm Participation in Antidumping Petitions [PDF]
This research is one of the first attempts to investigate the proliferation of antidumping protection from the firm-level and, in particular, to study the reasons why the free-riding problem may be more or less severe in particular countries or ...
Kara M. Reynolds
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Contributing or Free-Riding? Voluntary Participation in a Public Good Economy [PDF]
We consider a (pure) public goods provision problem with voluntary participation in a quasi-linear economy. We propose a new hybrid solution concept, the free-riding-proof core (FRP-Core), which endogenously determines a contribution group, public good ...
Hideo Konishi, Taiji Furusawa
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