Online Platforms, Rate Parity, and the Free Riding Defence

Leading The Ignorant: Can Ignorance Eliminate The Free Riding Problem?

Free Riding

We use a unique dataset that combines the responses from an original survey of households, information about the structural characteristics of their homes, utility-provided longitudinal electricity usage records, plus utility program participation information, to study the uptake of energy efficiency incentives and their effect on residential electricity consumption. Attention is restricted to ...

Free Riding and Ethnic Heterogeneity∗

This paper provides a new explanation for the observed differences in the levels of public good provision in heterogeneous societies compared to the homogeneous counterparts. Consider a voluntary public good provision problem where egalitarian social norms impose income redistribution between agents: rich individuals are forced to share part of their wealth with their poor relatives. However, s...

Epistemic Free Riding

In epistemology and philosophy of science there has been a growing interest in group inquiry and ways that it might differ fundamentally from individual inquiry. The interest in this topic is understandable. Science is predominately collaborative work. If we want to understand the epistemic success of science, we need to understand group inquiry and it is an important part of this to learn whet...

The Design and Implementation of Free Riding

In this report, we revisit a much explored topic in networking the search for a simple yet fully general and efficient multicast design. The many years of research into multicast routing have led to a generally pessimistic view that the complexity of multicast routing and interdomain multicast in particular can only be overcome by restricting the service model, as in the case of single-source m...