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Social preferences, beliefs, and the dynamics of free riding in public good experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2008
We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them as well as subjects' elicited beliefs to explain contributions to a public good played repeatedly. We find...
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Social Preferences and the Variability of Conditional Cooperation
Baader, Malte; Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, … - 2022
We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first study we conduct online experiments in which subjects play eight Sequential Prisoner’s Dilemma games with payoffs systematically varied across games. We find that few second...
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Gotcha!: a profile of smuggling in international trade
Berger, Helge; Nitsch, Volker - 2008
This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …
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