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Strategically Planned Behavior in Public Good Experiments

Keser, Claudia - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2000

period(s), cooperation is given up, whatever the history of the game. Les participants à une expérience ont soumis des …. Dans la (les) période(s) finale(s), la coopération est abandonnée indépendamment du développement du jeu. …

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The Build-up of Cooperative Behavior among Non-cooperative Agents

Benchekroun, Hassan; Long, Ngo Van - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2006

capital of trustworthiness and that we call the stock of cooperation. We show that noncooperative agents might condition their … action on this state variable. Agents build-up the society's stock of cooperation and gradually overcome the free riding … le stock de capital social, ou « stock de coopération ». Nous démontrons que cette variable peut influencer les actions …

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Mobility and Cooperation: On the Run

Ehrhart, Karl-Martin; Keser, Claudia - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1999

In public goods experiments where subjects may change groups, we observe a continual flight of the more cooperative subjects away from the less cooperative ones. The less cooperative subjects attempt to enter cooperative groups in order to free-ride on their contributions. Lorsque les sujets...

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Voluntary Contributions to a Public Good: Non-neutrality Results / Contributions volontaires, biens publics

Long, Ngo Van; Shimomura, Koji - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2006

We show that the famous neutrality result in the theory of public good contributions (Warr, Kemp, Bergstrom, Blume and Varian) depends crucially on the assumption that agents do not take into account the effect of their public good contribution decisions on the relative price of the private...

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Mandatory minimum contributions, heterogeneous endowments and voluntary public-good provision

Keser, Claudia; Markstädter, Andreas; Schmidt, Martin - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2014

In a public-good experiment with heterogeneous endowments, we investigate if and how the contribution level as well as the previously observed fair-share rule of equal contributions relative to one's endowment (Hofmeyr et al., 2007; Keser et al., 2014) may be influenced by minimum-contribution...

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Piece Rates, Fixed Wages and Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Shearer, Bruce S. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2003

Data from a field experiment are used to estimate the gain in productivity that is realized when workers are paid piece rates rather than fixed wages. The experiment was conducted within a tree-planting firm and provides daily observations on individual worker productivity under both copensation...

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Compensation Policy and Worker Performance: Identifying Incentive Effects from Field Experiments

Shearer, Bruce S. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2003

The role of field experiments in evaluating the effect of compensation policies on worker productivity is considered. Particular attention is paid to the ability of a field experiment to identify the effect of a permanent change in firm policy. While field experiments solve endogeneity problems...

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Estimates of Own Lethal Risks and Anchoring Effects

Armantier, Olivier - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2006

The paper reports on an experiment testing whether agents perceive correctly the lethal risks they face personally. The results suggest that subjects exhibit comparable biases when making predictions for their own-age-cohort, or for the entire population (i.e. agents overestimate rare risks, and...

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Keep it Down: An Experimental Test of the Truncated Uniform Price Auction

Doyon, Maurice; Rondeau, Daniel; Mbala, Richard - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2009

The introduction of a centralized institution for trading production rights in quota-regulated agricultural sectors can dramatically improve the flow of information among market pareticipants and increase efficiency. On the other hand, prevailing conditions in these small markets can provide...

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Competitive Private Supply of Public Goods / Provision privée des biens publics en compétition

Dragicevic, Arnaud; Meunier, Guy - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010

This paper compares guilt alleviation and competition for social status in the private provision of a public good. When agents are intrinsically impulsed, that is, they mostly provide the public good in order to alleviate their guilt, they tend to free-ride. In contrast, when agents are...

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