We consider a market where there is an agency relationship between the providers of a service or agents and their clients. Agents can choose to work alone or to have a sharing agreement with other agents. Sharing agreements create value by facilitating better matches between clients and agents, but they worsen incentives because of free riding. We show that in the context of a one shot game, th...

Much research has focused on the deleterious effects of free-riding in public goods games, and a variety of mechanisms that suppresses cheating behavior. Here we argue that under certain conditions cheating behavior can be beneficial to the population. In a public goods game, cheaters do not pay for the cost of the public goods, yet they receive the benefit. Although this free-riding harms the ...

This paper addresses the problem of free riding on peer-to-peer resource-sharing networks and explores methods for motivating more cooperative user behaviour via an adaptive interface. The paper argues that the free-riding problem is not so much an economic issue as a socio-psychological one due to a paradigm shift the user community is undergoing. Users do not yet understand that they, and all...

M business-to-business (B2B) auctions are used to transact large quantities of homogeneous goods, and therefore use multiunit mechanisms. In the B2B context, bidders often have increasing returns to scale, or synergies. We compare two commonly used auction formats for selling multiple homogeneous objects, both sometimes called “Dutch” auctions, in a set of value environments that include synerg...

Several experimental studies show that ex post communication promotes generosity in situations where individual incentives contradict with common interest, like the provision of public goods. The root underlying the e ect of this institution, especially in a repeated interaction, is nonetheless still obscure. This study provides a novel empirical testbed for two mechanisms by which ex post comm...

We study the effect of hierarchies on the performance of an organization that exhibits both profit sharing and information sharing. We adopt a server-queue model of effort and intraorganizational competition and quantify the performance of an organization in terms of the overall efficiency and risk in meeting target production levels. On the one hand, we show that profit sharing leads to free r...

This proceeding deals with various attacks and exploitations P2P networks have to cope with. In the last few years BitTorrent became famous for spreading big amounts of data to many people in a short time. BitTorrent will therefore be the main focus of this work. This proceeding serves basically as overview about different types of attacks. It shows attacks that are able to prevent files from b...

Most coalitions that form to increase contributions to a public good do not require full participation by all users of the public good, and therefore create incentives for free riding. If given the opportunity to opt out of a voluntary coalition, in theory, agents should try to be among the first to do so, forcing the remaining undecided agents to bear the cost of participating in the coalition...

Citation: The PLOS ONE Staff (2014) Correction: Free-Riding Behavior in Vaccination Decisions: An Experimental Study. PLoS ONE 9(3): e94066. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094066 Published March 27, 2014 Copyright: 2014 The PLOS ONE Staff. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduc...