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Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian … - CESifo - 2013
We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As … predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels … of cooperation. This means that there is evidence for an impulse to be selfish and that cooperative behavior requires …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010639421
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Conflict, Settlement, and the Shadow of the Future
McBride, Michael; Skaperdas, Stergios - CESifo - 2009
finding, discuss its applicability in war, litigation, and other settings, and test it in a laboratory experiment. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533978
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An Experimental Investigation of Colonel Blotto Games
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Dan Kovenock J.; Sheremeta, … - CESifo - 2009
This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034634
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The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks
Dan Kovenock J.; Roberson, Brian; Sheremeta, Roman M. - CESifo - 2010
This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of targets, in which the attacker’s objective is to successfully attack at least one target and the defender’s objective is diametrically opposed. We apply two benchmark contest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671693
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Observable Strategies, Commitments, and Contracts
Wärneryd, Karl - CESifo - 2014
We consider rules (strategies, commitments, contracts, or computer programs) that make behavior contingent on an opponent’s rule. The set of perfectly observable rules is not well defined. Previous contributions avoid this problem by restricting the rules deemed admissible. We instead limit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011086457
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Voting on Punishment Systems within a Heterogeneous Group
Noussair, Charles; Tan, Fangfang - CESifo - 2009
We consider a voluntary contributions game, in which players may punish others after contributions are made and observed. The productivity of contributions, as captured in the marginal-per-capita return, differs among individuals, so that there are two types: high and low productivity. Every two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013941
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Alliances in the Shadow of Conflict
Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - CESifo - 2012
Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603853
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Justice under Uncertainty
Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2013
choices have uncertain outcomes. We report the results of a first experiment investigating just allocations of resources when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877816
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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - CESifo - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877864
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More than Thirty Years of Ultimatum Bargaining Experiments: Motives, Variations, and a Survey of the Recent Literature
Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin G. - CESifo - 2013
subjectively-colored, recollection of the initial ultimatum game experiment, its motivation and the immediate responses. Second, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877980