Evidence from an experiment investigating the "house money effect" in the context of a public goods game is … is potentially important in the external validity debate. -- Public Good Experiment ; Hurdle Model ; double hurdle model …

externality. A within-subjects measure of reticence to impose harm does not explain cooperation. But the externality makes … participants more pessimistic. However conditional on their beliefs participants are more, not less cooperative if cooperation …

neutral language. Here we show that cooperation in such a neutrally framed Prisoner’s Dilemma is equivalent to a PD framed as … contributing to a cooperative endeavour. Conversely, there is substantially less cooperation in a PD framed as a competition. We …

conditional cooperation. Yet many real life situations involve insiders, who are directly affected by a dilemma, and outsiders … their dilemma and collude, this inflicts harm on the opposite market side. In our experiment, harm on outsiders … significantly reduces conditional cooperation of insiders. We can exclude that this result is driven by inequity aversion …

symmetric and asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery, one may wonder which punishment strategy is more effective in curbing … corruption. For this purpose, we designed and ran a lab experiment in Bonn (Germany) and Shanghai (China) with exactly the same … design. The results show that, in both countries, with symmetric punishment recipients are less likely to grant the socially …