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Conflict, Settlement, and the Shadow of the Future
McBride, Michael; Skaperdas, Stergios - CESifo - 2009
In many instances of potential violent or non-violent conflict the future strategic positions of adversaries are very … different when there is open conflict than when there is settlement. In such environments we show that, as the future becomes … more important, open conflict becomes more likely than settlement. We demonstrate the theoretical robustness of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533978
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Reciprocity and Emotions: Arousal, Self-Reports, and Expectations
Ben-Shakhar, Gershon; Bornstein, Gary; Hopfensitz, Astrid; … - CESifo - 2004
Although reciprocity is a key concept in the social sciences, it is still unclear why people engage in costly reciprocation. In this study, physiological and self-report measures were employed to investigate the role of emotions, using the Power-to-Take Game. In this 2-person game, player 1 can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766252
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Negotiating to Avoid "Gradual" versus "Dangerous" Climate Change: An Experimental Test of Two Prisoners' Dilemma
Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - CESifo - 2014
According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize “greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” The Framework Convention thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734324
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On the Sensitivity of Collective Action to Uncertainty about Climate Tipping Points
Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - CESifo - 2014
Previous research shows that collective action to avoid a catastrophic threshold, such as a climate “tipping point,” is unaffected by uncertainty about the impact of crossing the threshold but that collective action collapses if the location of the threshold is uncertain. Theory suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743452
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Inefficient Group Organization as Optimal Adaption to Dominant Environments
Kolmar, Martin; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2010
Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498991
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On the Persistence of Strategic Sophistication
Georganas, Sotiris; Healy, Paul J.; Weber, Roberto A. - CESifo - 2014
We examine whether the ‘Level-k’ model of strategic behavior generates reliable cross-game predictions within an individual. We find no correlation in subjects’ estimated levels of reasoning across two families of games. Furthermore, estimating a higher level for Ann than Bob in one family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877731
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Gender Differences in Experimental Wage Negotiations
Dittrich, Marcus; Knabe, Andreas; Leipold, Kristina - CESifo - 2012
We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877802
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An Explanation of (First Round) Contributions in Public-Good Experiments
Weimann, Joachim; Brosig-Koch, Jeannette; Heinrich, Timo; … - CESifo - 2014
participated in our experiment in groups of up to 100 subjects. The results confirm that first-round contributions increase with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948901
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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - CESifo - 2008
individuals’ cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them – as well as subjects’ elicited beliefs – to explain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765860
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Measuring Strategic Uncertainty in Coordination Games
Heinemann, Frank; Nagel, Rosemarie; Ockenfels, Peter - CESifo - 2004
subjective beliefs of players. In a laboratory experiment we measure subjects’ certainty equivalents for three coordination games …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094385