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An individualistic approach to institution formation in public good games

Ramalingam, Abhijit; Godoy, Sara; Morales, Antonio J.; … - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2014

In a repeated public goods setting, we explore whether individuals, acting unilaterally, will provide an effective sanctioning institution. Subjects first choose unilaterally whether they will participate in a sanctioning stage that follows a contribution stage. Only those who gave themselves...

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Inducing natural group identity: A RDP analysis

Zizzo, Daniel John - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2012

A relevance, distinctiveness and plausibility (RDP) analysis is a conceptual framework that can be used to identify when potential confounds are a problem for interpreting experimental results. We illustrate this analysis using the creation or enhancement of natural group identity by the means...

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Incomplete Punishment Networks in Public Goods Games: Experimental Evidence

Leibbrandt, Andreas; Ramalingam, Abhijit; Saaksvuori, Lauri - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2013

alternative punishment networks. Our results show that the structure of punishment network significantly affects allocations to … the public good. In addition, we observe that network configurations are more important than punishment capacities for the … of anti-social punishment. …

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On the Robustness of Emotions and Behavior in a Power-to-Take Game Experiment

Galeotti, Fabio - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2013

extent the findings of this literature are driven by the particular punishment technology adopted, and whether the experience … still play an important role when the potential relevant confound is removed from the punishment technology; (b) subjects … display a similar behavior under a punishment technology with a constant and variable 'fine-to-fee' ratio; (c) previous …

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Social information 'nudges': An experiment with multiple group references

Heap, Shaun Hargreaves; Ramalingam, Abhijit; Arjona, … - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2015

Social information 'nudges' concerning how others perform typically boost individual performances in experiments with one group reference point. However, in many natural settings, sometimes due to policy, there are several such group reference points. We address the complications that such...

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Can experimental measures of sensitivity to social pressure predict public good contribution?

Zizzo, Daniel John; Fleming, Piers - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2010

Public good contribution in experiments may at least partially be driven by the social demand to contribute that is implicit in them. We consider a questionnaire measure and build a behavioural measure of sensitivity to social pressure based on paired dictator and money burning games; we find...

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Reference point effects in antisocial preferences

Abbink, Klaus; Masclet, David; Veelen, Matthijs van - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2009

We study antisocial preferences in simple money-burning tasks. A decision maker can choose whether or not to reduce another person's payoff at an own cost. We vary across tasks the initial endowment of the decider and the victim. We find that most conventional expectations are refuted: Subjects...

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Income effect and altruism

Chowdhury, Subhashish Modak; Jeon, Joo Young - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2012

We investigate the consequences of a pure income effect on the altruistic behavior of donors. Inequity aversion theories predict either no effect or a decrease in giving, whereas warm-glow theory predicts an increase in giving with an increase in the common income of donor and receiver....

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Heterogeneity in preferences towards complexity

Moffatt, Peter G.; Sitzia, Stefania; Zizzo, Daniel John - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2014

We analyze lottery-choice data in a way that separately estimates the effects of risk aversion and complexity aversion, and allows both both of these to vary between individuals, and also to change with experience. The data is from an experiment in which 80 subjects engage in a sequence of 54...

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The role of conferences on the pathway to academic impact: Evidence from a natural experiment

Leon, Fernanda L. L. de; McQuillin, Ben - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2014

This paper provides evidence for the role of conferences in generating visibility for academic work, using a â€˜natural experimentâ€™: the last-minute cancellation â€“ due to â€˜Hurricane Isaacâ€™ â€“ of the 2012 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual...

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