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dc.contributor.authorMotlagh, Mahsa
dc.contributor.authorBhaduri, Anik
dc.contributor.authorBogardi, Janos J
dc.contributor.authorRibbe, Lars
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-01T02:53:21Z
dc.date.available2022-11-01T02:53:21Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn0719-2452en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.5027/jnrd.v7i0.09en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/406463
dc.description.abstractEscalating tension and a sense of mistrust currently prevail between downstream and upstream countries in the Nile Basin over Ethiopia's construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Striving for self-sufficiency in hydropower generation, Ethiopia has initiated a new series of upstream reservoir construction projects, with the GERD being the largest, and this may affect the water availability in downstream countries of Egypt and Sudan. This paper examines a set of compensation options to induce cooperation through trust-building, possibly minimizing uncertainties in water allocation decision-making and simplifying complex inter-relationships in the basin using laboratory game experiments. The game was developed and conducted using hydro-economic modeling of the basin with GAMS software, an expert survey with the SPSS program and Z-tree software to design and analyze the laboratory experiment. This paper presents the results of the laboratory game experiment where the Eastern Nile Basin scenario was modeled as a multi-round, adjusted trust game with non-binding deals among players. The results suggest that the "win for all" situation may be reached through a stable integrative, cooperative framework. Building the enabling environment, in particular, transparency, knowledge, trust, and confidence among riparian states is the first step in developing transboundary cooperation. Basin-wide cooperation requires a transparent environment including a variety of compensation options, institutional changes, and incentive-compatible considerations.Research articleen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.publisherPontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaisoen_US
dc.publisher.urihttps://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/JNRD/article/view/748en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom73en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpageto83en_US
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Natural Resources and Developmenten_US
dc.relation.ispartofvolume7en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEconomic Theory not elsewhere classifieden_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode140199en_US
dc.titleThe Role of Trust-building in Fostering Cooperation in the Eastern Nile Basin: A Case of Experimental Game Applicationen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articlesen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMotlagh, M; Bhaduri, A; Bogardi, JJ; Ribbe, L, The Role of Trust-building in Fostering Cooperation in the Eastern Nile Basin: A Case of Experimental Game Application, Journal of Natural Resources and Development, 7, pp. 73-83en_US
dcterms.licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_US
dc.date.updated2021-07-29T03:27:26Z
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gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2017. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.en_US
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