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How to Analyze Models of Nonlinear Public Goods
Public goods games often assume that the effect of the public good is a linear function of the number of contributions. In many cases, however, especially in biology, public goods have nonlinear effects, and nonlinear games are known to have dynamics and
Marco Archetti
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Pragmatism and the Limits to the European Parliament’s Strategies for Self-Empowerment
Despite the European Parliament’s (EP) growing role, its influence and scrutiny capacity remain considerably weaker than the role traditionally reserved for parliaments in economic and fiscal policy decision-making at the national level.
Carlos Closa Montero +2 more
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In this study, we apply the hypothesis of private amenity which simulates that the nonindustrial livestock farmers are assured an ex-ante normal minimum operating profitability rate for their investments in the production systems of livestock species ...
Pablo Campos +2 more
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Public Goods: Re-examination, Related Concepts and Distinctions [PDF]
The essay is aiming at answering‘How do economists distinguish between public goods and private goods? What problems does the existence of public goods pose for the market?
Chen Jing
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Are we able to determine the existence value output generated for society through the preservation of wild species threatened with extinction? In this article we defend the theory that the service of preserving threatened species with risk of extinction ...
Pablo Campos +3 more
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The production of costly public goods (as distinct from metabolic byproducts) has largely been understood through the realization that spatial structure can minimize losses to non-producing "cheaters" by allowing for the positive assortment of producers.
Brian A Lerch +4 more
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Income value of private amenities assessed in California oak woodlands
Landowners in California were surveyed using a contingent valuation technique to assess its usefulness in estimating the monetary income value of private amenities from their oak woodland properties.
Jose L. Oviedo +3 more
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Nędza koncepcji globalnych dóbr publicznych
The Poverty of the Concept of Global Public Goods The concept of global public goods (GPG) reflects an attempt to replicate a microeconomic theory of public goods to the domain of international relations (IR).
Dominik Kopiński, Andrzej Polus
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Instrumenting Beliefs in Threshold Public Goods. [PDF]
Understanding the causal impact of beliefs on contributions in Threshold Public Goods (TPGs) is particularly important since the social optimum can be supported as a Nash Equilibrium and best-response contributions are a function of beliefs ...
Angela C M de Oliveira +2 more
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Your Resilience is My Vulnerability: ‘Rules in Use’ in a Local Water Conflict
This paper uses an empirical analysis of a water conflict in the German state of Brandenburg to explore diverse constructions of vulnerability to water scarcity by local stakeholders.
Frank Sondershaus, Timothy Moss
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