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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
doaj   +1 more source

Analysing firm-specific and type-specific determinants of eco-innovation

open access: yesTechnological and Economic Development of Economy, 2017
This paper analyses the main determinants influencing different types of eco-innovations and eco-innovators in Spain. We differentiate between two types of eco-innovations (process vs. product and new-to-the-market (NTM) vs.
Pablo Del Río   +2 more
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Bargaining over Public Goods [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Public Economic Theory, 2009
AbstractIn a simple public good economy, we propose a natural bargaining procedure, the equilibria of which converge to Lindahl allocations as the cost of bargaining vanishes. The procedure splits the decision over the allocation in a decision about personalized prices and a decision about output levels for the public good.
Davila, Julio   +2 more
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Public goods and decay in networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We propose a simple behavioral model to analyze situations where (1) a group of agents repeatedly plays a public goods game within a network structure and (2) each agent only observes the past behavior of her neighbors, but is affected by the decisions ...
A Galeotti   +17 more
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Understanding values beyond carbon in the Woodland Carbon Code in Scotland

open access: yesTrees, Forests and People, 2022
Many governments and organisations are encouraging carbon dioxide capture in woodlands through the creation of markets that commodify forest carbon. These schemes can connect different values in local landscapes and global environmental responses to ...
James Koronka, Paola Ovando, Jo Vergunst
doaj   +1 more source

Becoming generous and respecting honor: An experiment based on donation and trust-game with multiple trustees

open access: yesBusiness Review, 2019
This research explores the reoccurring conflict of speculations and explanations among social scientists regarding why people do charity or behave generously. Our participants were 256 subjects, 34% males and 65.2 % females.
Gulnaz Anjum, Werner Gueth
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Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Goods Provision

open access: yesİstanbul İktisat Dergisi, 2020
The level of public goods provided in a society is important not only because it contributes to social inclusion and strengthens a shared sense of citizenship, but also because it is a fundamental pre-condition for long term growth and development ...
Uğur Özdemir, Yüksel Alper Ecevit
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Improving public services delivery: Economists’ perspective

open access: yesУправленец, 2023
Improving public services delivery is one of the central tasks of public administration reforms, which substantiates the high importance of analysing approaches to tackling it.
Vitaly L. Tambovtsev   +1 more
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Walras, Musgrave et l’hétérogénéité entre les biens publics et les biens privés

open access: yesŒconomia, 2021
Léon Walras (1834-1910) and Richard A. Musgrave (1910-2007) both argued that the state was providing public goods that were not directly demanded by individuals.
Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay
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