The social costs of responsibility

Steven J. Humphrey and Elke Renner

We use an experimental lottery choice task and public goods game to examine if responsibility for the financial welfare of others affects decisionmaking behaviour in two different types of decision environments. We find no evidence that responsibility affects individual risk preferences. Responsibility does, however, crowd-out cooperation in a public goods game. -- responsibility ; risk attitudes ; social preferences ; public goods game

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Humphrey, Steven J. ; Renner, Elke
Publisher:	Nottingham : CEDEX
Subject:	Verantwortung \| Responsibility \| Altruismus \| Altruism \| Öffentliche Güter \| Public goods \| Risikopräferenz \| Risk attitude \| Spieltheorie \| Game theory

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 30 S., 785,91 KB) graph. Darst.
Series:	CEDEX discussion paper series. - Nottingham : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 1749-3293, ZDB-ID 2105636-5. - Vol. 2011-02
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/49703 [Handle]
Classification:	C72 - Noncooperative Games ; C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D74 - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances ; H41 - Public Goods
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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