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Redundancy and Reliability

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Lian Cheng (Institute of Quantitative & Technical Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

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Redundancy is a commonly employed strategy to enhance the reliability of systems involving human factors. However, this paper shows that a system with higher level of redundancy can be less reliable due to free-rider effects.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Microeconomics with number 0508004.

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Date of creation: 07 Aug 2005
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