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An Experimental Investigation into ‘Pledge and Review’ in Climate Negotiations
(Springer Netherlands, 2016-06-06)
A novelty of the new Paris Agreement is the inclusion of a process for assessment and review of countries’ nationally determined pledges and contributions. The intent is to reveal whether similar countries are making comparable pledges, whether the totality of such pledges will achieve the global goal, and whether, over the coming years, the contributions actually made by countries will equal or exceed their pledges. The intent is also to provide an opportunity for countries to express their approval, or disapproval, ...
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Cooperating to avoid catastrophe
(Nature Publishing Group, 2018-07-09)
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Output 5 ― Evaluation-Tool
(2017)
Purpose – The purpose of this report is to study the success of short-term intensive study programmes (ISPs) over the short-term perspective and highlight additional lessons for students which might be missed without the experience of working face-to-face on sophisticated tasks in multicultural teams.
Approach/ Methodology – The evaluation of our ISPs was conducted using a quantitative methodology, via questionnaires given to students at the beginning, the middle and at the end of a course. The questionnaire development ...
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Identification of individuals and groups in a public goods experiment
(2019-07-03)
Revealing the identities of contributors has been shown to increase cooperation in public goods games. In this paper we experimentally investigate whether this finding holds true when decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. We distinguish between groups in which members can discuss face-to-face to reach a decision and groups in which members communicate via computer chat. The results confirm the positive effect of identification on cooperation among individuals. For groups, however, we only find a small ...
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Grundlagen der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung in kulturgeschichtlicher Perspektive
(2010-12-15)
Der vorliegende Bericht soll die Ergebnisse einer Untersuchung der wirtschaftsgeschichtlichen Entwicklung der Regionen Kassel/Nordhessen und Jena/Thüringen zusammenfassen. Als leitende Frage hinter der Untersuchung steht das Problem, inwieweit das gegenwärtige Innovationspotential der beiden Regionen von den Gegebenheiten ihrer Geschichte bestimmt wird. Dabei sollen mögliche Hinweise auf die geschichtlichen Grundlagen heutiger Unterschiede
in den Untersuchungsregionen in den Blick gerückt werden. Von besonderem ...
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Die Innovationskraft der Unternehmen in Nordhessen
(2011-01-03)
Die vorliegende Untersuchung hat das Ziel, die Stärke des Regionalen Innovationssystems Nordhessen mit Blick auf die Unternehmen zu analysieren. Sie basiert auf Erhebungen im Rahmen des von der Volkswagenstiftung geförderten Projekts „Regional Innovation Systems“ (RIS). Einen Schwerpunkt dieses Forschungsprojektes bildete eine breit angelegte Unternehmensbefragung in der Region Nordhessen, deren Ergebnisse in diesem Beitrag vorgestellt werden. Zudem werden drei vergleichende Auswertungen vorgenommen: (i) Ein Vergleich ...
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Voting on the threat of exclusion in a public goods experiment
(2019-04-01)
Ostracism is practiced by virtually all societies around the world as a means of enforcing cooperation. In this paper, we use a public goods experiment to study whether groups choose to implement an institution that allows for the exclusion of members. We distinguish between a costless exclusion institution and a costly exclusion institution that, if chosen, reduces the endowment of all players. We also provide a comparison with an exclusion institution that is exogenously imposed upon groups. A significant share of ...
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The choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems: a survey of experimental research
(2019-11-01)
A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising in prisoners’ dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the opportunity to influence the rules of the game before they play the game. In this paper, we review the experimental literature of the last 20 years on the choice of institutions and describe what has been learned about the quality and the determinants of institutional choice. Cooperative ...