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Kamei, Kenju - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 2, pp. 199-202

We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an individual are on average significantly positively proportional to other members’ punishment decisions to that individual.

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The impact of burden sharing rules on the voluntary provision of public goods

Kesternich, Martin; Lange, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 105 (2014) C, pp. 107-123

We investigate how burden sharing rules impact the voluntary provision of a public good which generates heterogeneous benefits to agents. We compare different rule-based contribution schemes where agents can first suggest a minimum provision level of the public good, before the smallest common...

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Group identity and leading-by-example

Drouvelis, Michalis; Nosenzo, Daniele - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 39 (2013) C, pp. 414-425

contributions game experiment. A common identity between the leader and her two followers is beneficial for cooperation: average … study the effects of heterogeneous identities. We find no effect on cooperation when only one of the followers shares the … identity is an effective but fragile instrument to promote cooperation. …

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Coalition Formation and Voting in Public Goods Games

Dannenberg, Astrid - In: Strategic Behavior and the Environment 2 (2012) 1, pp. 83-105

efforts alters the depth and breadth of cooperation; coalitions under the unanimity rule are relatively large and implement …

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Enforcement of contribution norms in public good games with heterogeneous populations

Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - In: Games and Economic Behavior 77 (2013) 1, pp. 122-137

We investigate the emergence and enforcement of contribution norms to public goods in homogeneous and heterogeneous groups. With survey data we demonstrate that uninvolved individuals hold well defined yet conflicting normative views of fair contribution rules related to efficiency, equality,...

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Leading by words: A voluntary contribution experiment with one-way communication

Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria; Weisser, … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 379-390

commonly accepted wisdom that the cooperation-enhancing effect of communication requires the mutual exchange of promises, we …

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On cooperation in open communities

Gürerk, Özgür; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rockenbach, Bettina - In: Journal of Public Economics 120 (2014) C, pp. 220-230

communities' success. Voting with feet improves cooperation by facilitating the right initial match between individuals and …

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Heterogeneity and cooperation: The role of capability and valuation on public goods provision

Kölle, Felix - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 109 (2015) C, pp. 120-134

for the public good have negative effects on cooperation and its enforcement through informal sanctions. Asymmetric … facilitates or impedes collective action, but that it is rather the nature of asymmetry that determines the degree of cooperation …

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Social influences towards conformism in economic experiments

Heap, Shaun Hargreaves - 2014

This paper reviews some of the economic experimental evidence on conformism. There is nothing to match the early psychology experiments where subjects were often swayed by the behaviour of others to an extraordinary degree, but there is plenty of evidence of conformism. This seems built-in to...

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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 sized groups compete for a prize that is shared equally among members of the winning group, regardless of their (costly) contributions to the group's success. We find that...

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