The meritocracy as a mechanism to overcome social dilemmas
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social dilemmas; Nash equilibrium; non-cooperative games; coordination; mechanism design; experiment;All these keywords.
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- D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2007-04-09 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-CDM-2007-04-09 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EXP-2007-04-09 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-SOC-2007-04-09 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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