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Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups
Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2007
In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its members find it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherent asymmetric nature may make the enforcement of cooperative behavior through informal sanctioning harder to accomplish....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094348
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Institution Formation in Public Goods Games
Kosfeld, Michael; Okada, Akira; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2006
frequently as well as that institution formation has a positive impact on cooperation rates and group welfare. However, the data … institution formation process is guided by behavioral principles not taken into account by standard theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406364
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Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations
Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2009
Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013056
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Minimum Participation Rules for the Provision of Public Goods
Gerber, Anke; Neitzel, Jakob; Wichardt, Philipp Christoph - CESifo - 2012
This paper considers the endogenous formation of an institution to provide a public good. If the institution governs only its members, players have an incentive to free ride on the institution formation of others and the social dilemma is simply shifted to a higher level. Addressing this...
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Sequential versus Simultaneous Contributions to Public Goods: Experimental Evidence
Gaechter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - CESifo - 2009
We report an experiment comparing sequential and simultaneous contributions to a public good in a quasi-linear two-person setting (Varian, Journal of Public Economics, 1994). Our findings support the theoretical argument that sequential contributions result in lower overall provision than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000384
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The Value of Non-Binding Announcements in Public Goods Experiments: Some Theory and Experimental Evidence
Berlemann, Michael; Dittrich, Marcus; Markwardt, Gunther - CESifo - 2004
In this paper we present three simple theoretical models to explain the influence of the possibility to make non-binding announcements on investment behaviour in public goods settings. Our models build on the idea that voluntary contributions to the supply of a public good might be motivated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094302
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A Note on the Design of Experiments Involving Public Goods
Graves, Philip E. - CESifo - 2010
Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671727
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Asymmetric Obligations
Riedel, Nadine; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - CESifo - 2011
We use a laboratory experiment to investigate the behavioral effects of obligations that are not backed by binding deterrent incentives. To implement such ‘expressive law’ we introduce different levels of very weakly incentivized, symmetric and asymmetric minimum contribution levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020088
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How Do Judgmental Overconfidence and Overoptimism Shape Innovative Activity?
Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2013
Recent field evidence suggests a positive link between overconfidence and innovative activities. In this paper we argue that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In particular, we show theoretically and experimentally that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877694
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Growing Groups, Cooperation, and the Rate of Entry
Ranehill, Eva; Schneider, Frédéric; Weber, Roberto A. - CESifo - 2014
We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying rates at which a group grows. Using a laboratory … cooperation. We then study the effect on cooperation of exogenously varying rates of entry. Slow growth yields higher cooperation … endogenous growth generally also produces high cooperation levels, growth stalls at intermediate group sizes, leaving potential …
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