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Bridging the Great Divide in South Africa: Inequality and Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods
Visser, Martine; Burns, Justine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006
find that aggregate cooperation is higher in both the voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM) and punishment treatments for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207232
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Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012
We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As … 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/10009416204
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The role of beliefs, trust, and risk in contributions to a public good
Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Matzat, Dominik; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011
positively associated with cooperation in a public goods game. However, even though contributing unconditionally to a public good … resembles a situation of making decisions under risk, elicited risk preferences do not seem to explain cooperation in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794460
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Cooperation in teams: the role of identity, punishment and endowment distribution
Weng, Qian; Carlsson, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013
cooperation in teamwork settings. This paper examines the relative importance of these two mechanisms, as well as the importance … of income distribution in team cooperation. In a repeated public good experiment, conditions vary among different … that without punishment, strong identity can counteract the negative impact of endowment heterogeneity on cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019126
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Social Background, Cooperative Behavior, and Norm Enforcement
Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechansism have been documented in cross-cultural studies, recently. We present data which prove that stark...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008517832
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When Samuelson met Veblen abroad: National and global public good provision when social comparisons matter
Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012
This paper derives Pareto efficient policy rules for the provision of national as well as global public goods in a two-country world, where each individual cares about relative consumption within as well as between countries. Furthermore, we compare these policy rules with those that follow from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019110
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Reciprocity Networks and the Participation Problem
Dufwenberg, Martin; Patel, Amrish - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014
Reciprocity can be a powerful motivation for human behaviour. Scholars argue that it is relevant in the context of private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The interaction of reciprocity with cost-sharing is critical....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019133
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Climate Change in a Public Goods Game: Investment Decision in Mitigation versus Adaptation
Hasson, Reviva; Löfgren, Åsa; Visser, Martine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
treatments. Further, our results emphasize the important role of trust in enhancing cooperation.<p> …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458274
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Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Intervention
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010
winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552184
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Design of stated preference surveys: Is there more to learn from behavioral economics?
Carlsson, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
We discuss the design of stated preference (SP) surveys in light of findings in behavioral economics such as context dependence of preferences, learning, and differences between revealed and normative preferences. More specifically, we discuss four different areas: (i) revealed and normative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458272