G Bravo
Biographic Data
| ID | 16942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Bravo |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Bravo |
| SIGNATURE | BRAVO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linnaeus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2837-0137 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Empirical evidence of direct and indirect relations between environmental pressure and conflict
At a time of increased negative effects of environmental change on human systems such as extreme meteorological events, resource scarcity, and refugee crises, it is especially pressing to understand what role environmental pressure plays in increasing the likelihood of violent conflict. We use a comprehensive measure of environmental pressure – Population Biodensity, defined as the ratio of a country’s population to its biocapacity – to study the…
The silver lining of Covid-19 restrictions: Research output of academics under lockdown
Serious concerns have been raised on the potentially negative impact of public measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic on academic research, including the closure of research facilities, and the challenges of lockdown. However, it is unclear whether COVID-related mobility restrictions have penalized academic productivity, and if this is the case, whether it has had an equal impact on all research areas and countries. Here, we examined about 9.2…
Actions speak louder than words: Attitudes, behaviour, and partisan identity in a polarised environmental domain
The relationship between environmental attitudes and behaviour is known to be weak, especially when these variables are measured as self-report items in surveys. In addition many environmental questions are highly polarised, making it even more problematic to use survey data to inform policy making. To better explore the attitude–behaviour gap in the context of environmental policies, along with its interaction with partisan identity, we ran an o…
Gender gap in journal submissions and peer review during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. A study on 2329 Elsevier journals
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an unusually high submission rate of scholarly articles. Given that most academics were forced to work from home, the competing demands for familial duties may have penalized the scientific productivity of women. To test this hypothesis, we looked at submitted manuscripts and peer review activities for all Elsevier journals between February and May 2018-2020, including data on over 5 mil…
Long-Term Dynamics of Institutions: Using ABM as a Complementary Tool to Support Theory Development in Historical Studies
Historical data are valuable resources for providing insights into general sociological patterns in the past. However, these data o en inform us at the macro-level of analysis but not about the role of individuals' behaviours in the emergence of long-term patterns. Therefore, it is di icult to infer 'how' and 'why' certain patterns emerged in the past. Historians use various methods to draw hypotheses about the underlying reasons for emerging pat…
Taking sanctioning seriously: The impact of sanctions on the resilience of historical commons in Europe
In their studies of collective exploitation of common-pool resources, Ostrom and other scholars have stressed the importance of sanctioning as an essential method for preventing overuse and, eventually, the collapse of commons. However, most of the available evidence is based on data covering a relatively small period in history, and thus does not inform us about the evolution of rules, including sanctions, over time. In this article, we demonstr…
Institutional form versus function in a common property context: The credibility thesis tested through an agent-based model
A key debate in the study on land, housing and natural resources revolves around the notion that general institutional forms (such as private, common, public, and likewise formal property rights) lead to a certain institutional performance (as may be expressed in terms of prices, transaction costs or sustainability). However, a modest, yet, growing stream in institutional analysis aims to move away from ‘merely describing the characteristics’ of …
The impact of a national research assessment on the publications of sociologists in Italy
This article investigates the impact of the second national research assessment (VQR 2004–10), which was performed in 2011 by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes, on publication strategies by sociologists in Italy. We reconstructed all publications from Italian sociologists in Scopus between 2006 and 2015, that is five years before and after the assessment. We also checked academic tenure and pro…
Shared Patterns in Long-Term Dynamics of Commons as Institutions for Collective Action
We present an analysis of regulatory activities in historical commons offering a unique picture of their long-term institutional dynamics. The analysis took into account almost 3,800 regulatory activities in eighteen European commons in two countries across seven centuries. Despite differences in time and space, we found a shared pattern where an initial, highly-dynamic institutional-definition phase was followed by a relatively long period of st…
Experimental evidence of an environmental attitude-behavior gap in high-cost situations
Cooperation and Conflict in Segregated Populations
Humans behavior often varies depending on the opponent’s group membership, with both positive consequences (e.g., cooperation or mutual help) and negative ones (e.g., stereotyping, oppression, or even genocide). An influential model developed by Hammond and Axelrod (HA) highlighted the emergence of macrolevel “ethnocentric cooperation” from the aggregation of microlevel interactions based on arbitrary tags signaling group membership. We extended …
Referrals and information flow in networks increase discrimination: A laboratory experiment
Referrals and information flow distort market mechanisms of hiring in the labor market, but they might assist employers under asymmetric information in finding better alternatives. This paper investigates whether an impartial information flow between employers in a cyclic network structure could generate more discrimination than when no information is exchanged between employers. We set up an artificial labor market in which there was no average …
Exploring attitudes to societal relevance: The effects of reflection on research practices among Swedish environmental scientists
Funding agencies and policy-makers have put increasing pressure on scientists to better clarify the usefulness of their research. It has been suggested that this may have led to an increased reflection on the societal relevance of research among the scientists themselves. However, this often is more an assumption than a carefully verified fact. This paper investigates whether reflection on societal relevance actually occurs and has a measurable e…
Managing the commons: A Simple Model of the Emergence of Institutions Through Collective Action
In this paper we present an abstract replication of institutional emergence patterns observed in common pool resource (CPR) problems. We used the ADICO grammar of institutions as the basic structure to model both agents’ strategies and institutions. Through an evolutionary process, agents modify their behaviours and eventually establish a management institution for their CPR system, leading to significant benefits both for them and for the common…
Anderies, John M. and Marco A. Janssen (2013). Sustaining the Commons. Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University
[ Review of ] Anderies, John M. and Marco A. Janssen (2013). Sustaining the Commons. Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University
Anderies, John M. and Marco A. Janssen (2013). Sustaining the Commons. Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University
Defining Cultural Commons
This compelling book offers a fresh and novel approach to study cultural and artistic expression from the perspective of 'the commons'. It demonstrates how identifying cultures as shared resources is useful in eliciting the main factors and social dilemmas affecting the production and evolution of cultural expression.
Trust and partner selection in social networks: An experimentally grounded model
Agents' beliefs and the evolution of institutions for common-pool resource management
The joint exploitation of open-access natural resources is often modeled as a social dilemma with no escape for rational actors. Nevertheless, real individuals are not helplessly trapped in this dilemma and are often able to sustainably manage their commons by building endogenous institutions. This paper proposes both a simple analytical model and a more complex agent-based one designed to study common-pool resource management problems with a spe…
Moran, E.F. 2010, Environmental Social Science: Human-Environment Interactions and Sustainability. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell
Why Bother with What Others Tell You? An Experimental Data-Driven Agent-Based Model
This paper investigates the relevance of reputation to improve the explorative capabilities of agents in uncertain environments. We have presented a laboratory experiment where sixty-four subjects were asked to take iterated economic investment decisions. An agent-based model based on their behavioural patterns replicated the experiment exactly. Exploring this experimentally grounded model, we studied the effects of various reputational mechanism…
Voluntary contribution to public goods in mutual-help forums: Reciprocity or Group Attachment
Journal Article Voluntary contribution to public goods in mutual-help forums: reciprocity or group attachment? Get access Giangiacomo Bravo Giangiacomo Bravo * Department of Social Sciences, University of Torino, and Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, Italy *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio-Economic Review, Volume 8, Issue 4, October 2010, Pages 709–733, https://…
Pillars of Trust: An Experimental Study on Reputation and Its Effects
This paper presents the results of laboratory experiments on the relevance of reputation for trust and cooperation in social interaction. We have extended a repeated investment game by adding new treatments where reputation is taken more explicitly into account than before. We then compared treatments where the investor and the trustee rate each other and treatments where the investor and the trustee were rated by a third party. The results showe…
A consumption-based approach to environmental Kuznets curves using the ecological footprint indicator
The commons in Europe: From past to future
The changing in the meaning of common resources together with the new consciousness regarding their importance show that, also in Europe (and in other economically highly-developed areas), the research on the commons is not only an issue for historians. It represents one of the key issues towards a better understanding for some of the major challenges underlying the politics of EU countries
Experimental evidence of an environmental attitude-behavior gap in high-cost situations
The commons in Europe: From past to future
The changing in the meaning of common resources together with the new consciousness regarding their importance show that, also in Europe (and in other economically highly-developed areas), the research on the commons is not only an issue for historians. It represents one of the key issues towards a better understanding for some of the major challenges underlying the politics of EU countries
Managing the commons: A Simple Model of the Emergence of Institutions Through Collective Action
In this paper we present an abstract replication of institutional emergence patterns observed in common pool resource (CPR) problems. We used the ADICO grammar of institutions as the basic structure to model both agents’ strategies and institutions. Through an evolutionary process, agents modify their behaviours and eventually establish a management institution for their CPR system, leading to significant benefits both for them and for the common…
Institutional form versus function in a common property context: The credibility thesis tested through an agent-based model
A key debate in the study on land, housing and natural resources revolves around the notion that general institutional forms (such as private, common, public, and likewise formal property rights) lead to a certain institutional performance (as may be expressed in terms of prices, transaction costs or sustainability). However, a modest, yet, growing stream in institutional analysis aims to move away from ‘merely describing the characteristics’ of …
Voluntary contribution to public goods in mutual-help forums: Reciprocity or Group Attachment
Journal Article Voluntary contribution to public goods in mutual-help forums: reciprocity or group attachment? Get access Giangiacomo Bravo Giangiacomo Bravo * Department of Social Sciences, University of Torino, and Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, Italy *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio-Economic Review, Volume 8, Issue 4, October 2010, Pages 709–733, https://…
Pillars of Trust: An Experimental Study on Reputation and Its Effects
This paper presents the results of laboratory experiments on the relevance of reputation for trust and cooperation in social interaction. We have extended a repeated investment game by adding new treatments where reputation is taken more explicitly into account than before. We then compared treatments where the investor and the trustee rate each other and treatments where the investor and the trustee were rated by a third party. The results showe…
Taking sanctioning seriously: The impact of sanctions on the resilience of historical commons in Europe
In their studies of collective exploitation of common-pool resources, Ostrom and other scholars have stressed the importance of sanctioning as an essential method for preventing overuse and, eventually, the collapse of commons. However, most of the available evidence is based on data covering a relatively small period in history, and thus does not inform us about the evolution of rules, including sanctions, over time. In this article, we demonstr…
Agents' beliefs and the evolution of institutions for common-pool resource management
The joint exploitation of open-access natural resources is often modeled as a social dilemma with no escape for rational actors. Nevertheless, real individuals are not helplessly trapped in this dilemma and are often able to sustainably manage their commons by building endogenous institutions. This paper proposes both a simple analytical model and a more complex agent-based one designed to study common-pool resource management problems with a spe…
The Evolution of Trust in Non-Simultaneous Exchange Situations
Trust is an important concept that intersects a number of different disciplines, including economics, sociology, and political science, and maintains some meaning even in the natural sciences. Any situation where non-simultaneous exchanges between living organisms take place involves a problem of trust. We used computer simulations to study the evolution of trust in non-simultaneous exchange situations formalized by means of a Trust game. We foun…
The impact of a national research assessment on the publications of sociologists in Italy
This article investigates the impact of the second national research assessment (VQR 2004–10), which was performed in 2011 by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes, on publication strategies by sociologists in Italy. We reconstructed all publications from Italian sociologists in Scopus between 2006 and 2015, that is five years before and after the assessment. We also checked academic tenure and pro…
Shared Patterns in Long-Term Dynamics of Commons as Institutions for Collective Action
We present an analysis of regulatory activities in historical commons offering a unique picture of their long-term institutional dynamics. The analysis took into account almost 3,800 regulatory activities in eighteen European commons in two countries across seven centuries. Despite differences in time and space, we found a shared pattern where an initial, highly-dynamic institutional-definition phase was followed by a relatively long period of st…
Irrigation systems as common-pool resources: Examples from Northern Italy
Les ressources communes sont des ressources naturelles ou artificielles partagées par différents utilisateurs ; l’exploitation de ces ressources crée une rivalité, souvent (mais pas nécessairement) à l’origine de leur dégradation, voire de leur destruction. Cet article présente brièvement la théorie des ressources communes développée ces vingt dernières années par Elinor Ostrom et ses collègues, et l’illustre par plusieurs études de cas de systèm…
A consumption-based approach to environmental Kuznets curves using the ecological footprint indicator
The commons in Europe: From past to future
The changing in the meaning of common resources together with the new consciousness regarding their importance show that, also in Europe (and in other economically highly-developed areas), the research on the commons is not only an issue for historians. It represents one of the key issues towards a better understanding for some of the major challenges underlying the politics of EU countries
Irrigation systems as common-pool resources: Examples from Northern Italy
Les ressources communes sont des ressources naturelles ou artificielles partagées par différents utilisateurs ; l’exploitation de ces ressources crée une rivalité, souvent (mais pas nécessairement) à l’origine de leur dégradation, voire de leur destruction. Cet article présente brièvement la théorie des ressources communes développée ces vingt dernières années par Elinor Ostrom et ses collègues, et l’illustre par plusieurs études de cas de systèm…
Ressources communes: Systèmes d’irrigation du nord de l’Italie
Les ressources communes sont des ressources naturelles ou artificielles partagées par différents utilisateurs ; l’exploitation de ces ressources crée une rivalité, souvent (mais pas nécessairement) à l’origine de leur dégradation, voire de leur destruction. Cet article présente brièvement la théorie des ressources communes développée ces vingt dernières années par Elinor Ostrom et ses collègues, et l’illustre par plusieurs études de cas de systèm…
The Evolution of Trust in Non-Simultaneous Exchange Situations
Trust is an important concept that intersects a number of different disciplines, including economics, sociology, and political science, and maintains some meaning even in the natural sciences. Any situation where non-simultaneous exchanges between living organisms take place involves a problem of trust. We used computer simulations to study the evolution of trust in non-simultaneous exchange situations formalized by means of a Trust game. We foun…
Pillars of Trust: An Experimental Study on Reputation and Its Effects
This paper presents the results of laboratory experiments on the relevance of reputation for trust and cooperation in social interaction. We have extended a repeated investment game by adding new treatments where reputation is taken more explicitly into account than before. We then compared treatments where the investor and the trustee rate each other and treatments where the investor and the trustee were rated by a third party. The results showe…
Moran, E.F. 2010, Environmental Social Science: Human-Environment Interactions and Sustainability. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell
Why Bother with What Others Tell You? An Experimental Data-Driven Agent-Based Model
This paper investigates the relevance of reputation to improve the explorative capabilities of agents in uncertain environments. We have presented a laboratory experiment where sixty-four subjects were asked to take iterated economic investment decisions. An agent-based model based on their behavioural patterns replicated the experiment exactly. Exploring this experimentally grounded model, we studied the effects of various reputational mechanism…
Voluntary contribution to public goods in mutual-help forums: Reciprocity or Group Attachment
Journal Article Voluntary contribution to public goods in mutual-help forums: reciprocity or group attachment? Get access Giangiacomo Bravo Giangiacomo Bravo * Department of Social Sciences, University of Torino, and Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, Italy *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio-Economic Review, Volume 8, Issue 4, October 2010, Pages 709–733, https://…
Agents' beliefs and the evolution of institutions for common-pool resource management
The joint exploitation of open-access natural resources is often modeled as a social dilemma with no escape for rational actors. Nevertheless, real individuals are not helplessly trapped in this dilemma and are often able to sustainably manage their commons by building endogenous institutions. This paper proposes both a simple analytical model and a more complex agent-based one designed to study common-pool resource management problems with a spe…
Defining Cultural Commons
This compelling book offers a fresh and novel approach to study cultural and artistic expression from the perspective of 'the commons'. It demonstrates how identifying cultures as shared resources is useful in eliciting the main factors and social dilemmas affecting the production and evolution of cultural expression.
Trust and partner selection in social networks: An experimentally grounded model
Anderies, John M. and Marco A. Janssen (2013). Sustaining the Commons. Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University
[ Review of ] Anderies, John M. and Marco A. Janssen (2013). Sustaining the Commons. Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University
Anderies, John M. and Marco A. Janssen (2013). Sustaining the Commons. Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University
Managing the commons: A Simple Model of the Emergence of Institutions Through Collective Action
In this paper we present an abstract replication of institutional emergence patterns observed in common pool resource (CPR) problems. We used the ADICO grammar of institutions as the basic structure to model both agents’ strategies and institutions. Through an evolutionary process, agents modify their behaviours and eventually establish a management institution for their CPR system, leading to significant benefits both for them and for the common…
Exploring attitudes to societal relevance: The effects of reflection on research practices among Swedish environmental scientists
Funding agencies and policy-makers have put increasing pressure on scientists to better clarify the usefulness of their research. It has been suggested that this may have led to an increased reflection on the societal relevance of research among the scientists themselves. However, this often is more an assumption than a carefully verified fact. This paper investigates whether reflection on societal relevance actually occurs and has a measurable e…
Referrals and information flow in networks increase discrimination: A laboratory experiment
Referrals and information flow distort market mechanisms of hiring in the labor market, but they might assist employers under asymmetric information in finding better alternatives. This paper investigates whether an impartial information flow between employers in a cyclic network structure could generate more discrimination than when no information is exchanged between employers. We set up an artificial labor market in which there was no average …
Experimental evidence of an environmental attitude-behavior gap in high-cost situations
Cooperation and Conflict in Segregated Populations
Humans behavior often varies depending on the opponent’s group membership, with both positive consequences (e.g., cooperation or mutual help) and negative ones (e.g., stereotyping, oppression, or even genocide). An influential model developed by Hammond and Axelrod (HA) highlighted the emergence of macrolevel “ethnocentric cooperation” from the aggregation of microlevel interactions based on arbitrary tags signaling group membership. We extended …
Shared Patterns in Long-Term Dynamics of Commons as Institutions for Collective Action
We present an analysis of regulatory activities in historical commons offering a unique picture of their long-term institutional dynamics. The analysis took into account almost 3,800 regulatory activities in eighteen European commons in two countries across seven centuries. Despite differences in time and space, we found a shared pattern where an initial, highly-dynamic institutional-definition phase was followed by a relatively long period of st…
Gender gap in journal submissions and peer review during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. A study on 2329 Elsevier journals
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an unusually high submission rate of scholarly articles. Given that most academics were forced to work from home, the competing demands for familial duties may have penalized the scientific productivity of women. To test this hypothesis, we looked at submitted manuscripts and peer review activities for all Elsevier journals between February and May 2018-2020, including data on over 5 mil…
Long-Term Dynamics of Institutions: Using ABM as a Complementary Tool to Support Theory Development in Historical Studies
Historical data are valuable resources for providing insights into general sociological patterns in the past. However, these data o en inform us at the macro-level of analysis but not about the role of individuals' behaviours in the emergence of long-term patterns. Therefore, it is di icult to infer 'how' and 'why' certain patterns emerged in the past. Historians use various methods to draw hypotheses about the underlying reasons for emerging pat…
Taking sanctioning seriously: The impact of sanctions on the resilience of historical commons in Europe
In their studies of collective exploitation of common-pool resources, Ostrom and other scholars have stressed the importance of sanctioning as an essential method for preventing overuse and, eventually, the collapse of commons. However, most of the available evidence is based on data covering a relatively small period in history, and thus does not inform us about the evolution of rules, including sanctions, over time. In this article, we demonstr…
Institutional form versus function in a common property context: The credibility thesis tested through an agent-based model
A key debate in the study on land, housing and natural resources revolves around the notion that general institutional forms (such as private, common, public, and likewise formal property rights) lead to a certain institutional performance (as may be expressed in terms of prices, transaction costs or sustainability). However, a modest, yet, growing stream in institutional analysis aims to move away from ‘merely describing the characteristics’ of …
The impact of a national research assessment on the publications of sociologists in Italy
This article investigates the impact of the second national research assessment (VQR 2004–10), which was performed in 2011 by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes, on publication strategies by sociologists in Italy. We reconstructed all publications from Italian sociologists in Scopus between 2006 and 2015, that is five years before and after the assessment. We also checked academic tenure and pro…
Computer Science (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Economics (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Commons (8 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (8 works) · Microeconomics (8 works)