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How to Analyze Models of Nonlinear Public Goods

open access: yesGames, 2018
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

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2021
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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Pasture-Based Livestock Economics under Joint Production of Commodities and Private Amenity Self-Consumption: Testing in Large Nonindustrial Privately Owned Dehesa Case Studies in Andalusia, Spain

open access: yesAgriculture, 2021
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]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
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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Measurement of the Threatened Biodiversity Existence Value Output: Application of the Refined System of Environmental-Economic Accounting in the Pinus pinea Forests of Andalusia, Spain

open access: yesLand, 2022
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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How public can public goods be? Environmental context shapes the evolutionary ecology of partially private goods.

open access: yesPLoS Computational Biology, 2022
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

open access: yesCalifornia Agriculture, 2012
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

open access: yesPoliteja, 2019
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]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
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

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2014
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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