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Peer punishment with third-party approval in a social dilemma game
Tan, Fangfang; Xiao, Erte - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is a third party independent … of the implicated parties who propose the punishment. In a prisoner's dilemma experiment, we find an independent third … party vetoes not only punishment to the cooperators but punishment to the defectors as well. Compared with the case when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009402064
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Promoting Competition or Helping Less-Endowed? An Experiment on Collective Institutional Choices under Intra-Group Inequality
Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Unequally-distributed resources, whether people’s income or competence, are ubiquitous in our real world. Whether to promote competition or to lead to a more equal environment is often in question in societies or organizations. With heterogeneous endowments, we let subjects collectively choose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113335
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Identification of Altruism among Team Members: Empirical Evidence from the Classroom and Laboratory
Griffiths, Barry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
It is difficult to identify acts that are purely altruistic, and do not have some level of egoism or self-interest involved. By considering situations where team members seemingly have nothing to gain by the way they distribute points to others with regard to peer evaluation, and where their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170136
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Revealed Distributional Preferences: Individuals vs. Teams
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897339
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Modeling Social Preferences: A Generalized Model of Inequity Aversion
Khan, Hayat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Taking note of the wide variety and growing list of models in the literature to explain patterns of behavior observed in laboratory experiments, this paper identifies two tests, the Variety Test (ability of a model to explain outcomes under variety or alternative scenarios) and the Psychological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005108450
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The Role of Equality and Efficiency in Social Preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Naef, Michael; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Engelmann and Strobel (AER 2004) claim that a combination of efficiency seeking and minmax preferences dominates inequity aversion in simple dictator games. This result relies on a strong subject pool effect. The participants of their experiments were undergraduate students of economics and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005739661
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Is the veil of ignorance only a concept about risk? An experiment
Hörisch, Hannah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We implement the Rawlsian veil of ignorance in the laboratory. Our experimental design allows separating the effects of risk and social preferences behind the veil of ignorance. Subjects prefer more equal distributions behind than in front of the veil of ignorance, but only a minority acts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785895
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Justification and Legitimate Punishment
Xiao, Erte; Tan, Fangfang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
laboratory experiment to examine how justification can combat profit-seeking punishment and promote the legitimacy of punishment …Punishment can lose its legitimacy if the enforcer can profit from delivering punishment. We use a controlled … punishment. However, majority third parties punish the sender if and only if the sender lies when they have to provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109825
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Conditional Punishment
Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260305
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Can Violence Harm Cooperation? Experimental Evidence
De Luca, Giacomo; Sekeris, Petros; Spengler, Dominic - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
While folk theorems for dynamic renewable common pool resource games sustain cooperation as an equilibrium, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262754