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Growing groups, cooperation, and the rate of entry

Ranehill, Eva; Schneider, Frédéric; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013 - This Version: May 7, 2013

We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying group growth rates. Using a laboratory public-good game, we construct a situation where increasing group size yields potential efficiency gains, but only with sustained cooperation. We then study the effect of exogenously...

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Communication, equity and the voluntary provision of a public good by heterogeneous groups

Chan, Kenneth S.; Mestelman, Stuart; Muller, R. Andrew; … - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 1, pp. 87-94

Twenty-four laboratory sessions were conducted to evaluate the roles of communication and group heterogeneity when … the public good. Without communication, members of heterogeneous groups tend to coordinate more on equal contribution … communication and heterogeneity, leading to less equitable distributions of payoffs as heterogeneity becomes more complex. A model …

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Turning a blind eye, but not the other cheek : on the robustness of costly punishment

Kriss, Peter H.; Weber, Roberto A.; Xiao, Erte - 2015

-social acts? In a laboratory experiment, we find that third parties punish reluctantly: they state a preference to punish, but …

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Communication in asymmetric group competition over public goods

Zhang, Jingjing - 2012

This paper examines whether and how cheap talk communication can facilitate within-group coordination when two unequal … different in this control treatment. Cheap talk communication thus completely solves miscoordination within groups and makes … group members act as a single agent. Furthermore, it is the larger group that benefits from communication at the expense of …

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Starting small toward voluntary formation of efficient large groups in public goods provision

Charness, Gary; Yang, Chun-Lei - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 102 (2014) C, pp. 119-132

We test a mechanism whereby groups are formed voluntarily, through the use of voting. These groups play a public-goods game, where efficiency increases with group size (up to a limit, in one treatment). It is feasible to exclude group members, to exit one's group, or to form larger groups...

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Conditional cooperation and disclosure in developing countries

Martinsson, Peter; Pham-Khanh, Nam; Villegas-Palacio, Clara - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 34 (2013) C, pp. 148-155

Understanding the motivations behind people’s voluntary contributions to public goods is crucial for the broader issues of economic and social development. By using the experimental design of Fischbacher, Gächter, and Fehr (2001), we investigate the distribution of contribution types in two...

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Gun for hire: Delegated enforcement and peer punishment in public goods provision

Andreoni, James; Gee, Laura K. - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 11, pp. 1036-1046

This paper compares two methods to encourage socially optimal provision of a public good. We compare the efficacy of vigilante justice, as represented by peer-to-peer punishment, to delegated policing, as represented by the “hired gun” mechanism, to deter free riding and improve group...

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Ambiguity on audits and cooperation in a public goods game

Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - In: European Economic Review 74 (2015) C, pp. 146-162

We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the other group members is centrally sanctioned and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...

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Facebook-to-Facebook : online communication and economic cooperation

Abatayo, Anna Lou; Lynham, John; Sherstyuk, Katerina - In: Applied economics letters 25 (2018) 11, pp. 762-767

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Changing collective action : norm-nudges and team decisions

Diekert, Florian; Eymess, Tillmann - 2021

decisions are taken by teams, not individuals. 10 Each team in our experiment comes from a different fishing boat at Lake …

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