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Voting on Punishment Systems Within a Heterogeneous Group

Noussair, Charles; Tan, F. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

a punishment regime, in which certain individuals are permitted, but not required, to have punishment directed toward … them. The punishment system can condition on type and contribution history. The results indicate that the most effective … regime, in terms of contributions and earnings, is one that allows punishment of low contributors only, regardless of …

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Conditional Cooperation : Disentangling Strategic from Non-Strategic Motivations

Suetens, Sigrid; Reuben, E. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2008

We use a novel experimental design to examine the role of reputational concerns in explaining conditional cooperation … end is known, we can distinguish between strategically and non-strategically motivated cooperation. Second movers who are …

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Communication and Guilt in a Prisoner's Dilemma

Suetens, Sigrid; Miettinen, T. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2008

In this paper we measure experienced guilt in a prisoner’s dilemma experiment with pre-play communication. We find that feelings of guilt only arise in the case of unilateral defection and that they are stronger when players have mutually agreed to cooperate. We also find that fining...

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Local Control : An Educational Model of Private Enforcement of Public Rules

Kosfeld, M.; Huck, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

behavior. Instead, we analyze a system of what we call local control (LC), where the enforcement of punishment lies in the … executed and threatened punishment. Agents maximize their payoffs and underlie a constant drift towards not controlling others …. If the educational impact of control is too weak LC breaks down. Moreover, there exists a non{monotonic punishment effect …

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Cost allocation rules for elastic single-attribute situations

Borm, Peter; Karsten, Frank; Slikker, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2015

Many cooperative games, especially ones stemming from resource pooling in<br/>queuing or inventory systems, are based on situations in which each player is associated with a single attribute (a real number representing, say, a demand) and in which the cost to optimally serve any sum of attributes is...

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Methodological Interactionism : Theory and Application to the Firm and to the Building of Trust

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

Recent insights from the ‘embodied cognition’ perspective in cognitive science, supported by neural research, provide a basis for a ‘methodological interactionism’ that transcends both the methodological individualism of economics and the methodological collectivism of (some) sociology,...

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Economc Ties and Social Dilemmas : An Experimental Study

van Soest, Daan; Vyrastekova, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

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Ignorance is not always Bliss : Feedback and Dynamics in Public Good Experiments

Suetens, Sigrid; Bigoni, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

In this paper we study the effects of providing additional feedback about individual contributions and earnings on the dynamics of contributions in a repeated public good game. We include treatments where subjects can freely choose whether to obtain additional information about individual...

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Does it take Three to Make Two Happy? An Experimental Study on Bargaining with Mediation

Schroeter, K.; Vyrastekova, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

Mediation is a conflict resolution method in which a third neutral party provides assistance to the conflict parties.The process of mediation as well as any solution to the conflict arising from it is implemented only by the consent of all conflict parties.It is the role of a mediator to...

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Strategic vs Non-Strategic Motivations of Sanctioning

Vyrastekova, J.; Funaki, Y.; Takeuchi, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2008

(altruistic punishment). Interestingly, contributions to the public good in both treatments with sanctioning are higher than when … increases cooperation: subjects correctly expect that nonstrategic sanctioning takes place against freeriders. …

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