Free Riding on Altruism and Group Size [PDF]
It is shown that altruism does not affect the equilibrium provision of public goods although altruism takes the form of unconditional commitment to contribute. The reason is that altruistic contributions completely crowd out selfish contributions.
Jean Hindriks, Romans Pancs
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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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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments [PDF]
We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit individuals’ cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them – as well as subjects’ elicited beliefs – to explain contributions to ...
Simon Gaechter, Urs Fischbacher
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Not It: Opting out of Voluntary Coalitions that Provide a Public Good [PDF]
Most coalitions that form to increase contributions to a public good do not require full participation by all users of the public good, and therefore create incentives for free riding.
David M. McEvoy
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Free Riding of Vehicle Companies under Dual-Credit Policy: An Agent-Based System Dynamics Model
World Electric Vehicle JournalThe dual-credit policy promotes green transition in automobile companies. This paper investigates the dual-credit policy framework in the Chinese automotive industry, with a focus on the phenomenon of free riding.
Zhong Zhou, Yuqi Shen
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Sequential Teamwork in Competitive Environments: Theory and Evidence from Swimming Data [PDF]
The aim of the paper is to assess whether there is free-riding in teams when team production is sequential and when there is competition between teams. This a common case, which, however, has not been considered in the literature so far.
Matteo Richiardi, Michael Neugart
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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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Consequences of multiple simultaneous opportunities to exploit others' efforts on free riding. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2020 Dubois F, Richard-Dionne É.
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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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