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Full agreement and the provision of threshold public goods
Alberti, Federica; Cartwright, Edward J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We report threshold public good experiments in which group members not only need to be individually willing to contribute enough to provide the public good but also have to agree with each other on what every group members should contribute. We find strong support to the hypothesis that full...
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Provision of Multilevel Public Goods through Positive Externalities: Experimental Evidence
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The provision of public goods regularly embodies interrelated spheres of influence on multiple scales. This article examines the nature of human behavior in a multilevel social dilemma game with positive provision externalities to local and global scales. We report experimental results showing...
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The Provision of Public Goods with Positive Group Interdependencies
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article examines the nature of human behavior in a nested social dilemma referred to as the Spillover Game. Players are divided into two groups with positive production interdependencies. Based on theoretically derived opportunistic, local, and global optima, our experimental results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472642
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Learning (Not) To Yield: An Experimental Study of Evolving Ultimatum Game Behavior
Avrahami, Judith; Güth, Werner; Hertwig, Ralph; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
players modify their behavior. We conducted a repeated ultimatum game experiment with random strangers, in which one treatment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008782796
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Fear of being left alone drives inefficient exit from partnerships. An experiment
Gaudeul, Alexia; Crosetto, Paolo; Riener, Gerhard - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We explore in an experiment what leads to the breakdown of partnerships. Subjects are assigned a partner and …
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Threshold public good games and impulse balance theory
Alberti, Federica; Cartwright, Edward J.; Stepanova, Anna - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We propose and develop a model of behavior in threshold public good games. The model draws on learning direction theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652055
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Cooperation in a Risky Environment: Decisions from Experience in a Stochastic Social Dilemma
Artinger, Florian; Fleischhut, Nadine; Levati, M. Vittoria - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Often in cooperative situations, many aspects of the decision-making environment are uncertain. We investigate how cooperation is shaped by the way information about risk is presented (from description or from experience) and by differences in risky environments. Drawing on research from risky...
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Voluntary Commitment to Environmental Protection: A Bounded Rationality Approach
Pasche, Markus - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Global environmental protection is characterized as a public good. In contrast to the national level where the state is able to regulate external effects, there is a lack of supranational institutions which have enough power to force countries to reduce pollution levels. In spite of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005739732
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What renders financial advisors less treacherous? - On commissions and reciprocity -
Popva, Vera - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
An advisor is supposed to recommend a financial product in the best interest of her client. However, the best product for the client may not always be the product yielding the highest commission (paid by product providers) to the advisor. Do advisors nevertheless provide truthful advice? If not,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511336
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Other-regarding behaviour: Testing guilt- and reciprocity-based models
Regner, Tobias; Harth, Nicole S. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We analyse two types of belief-dependant models of social preferences: guilt aversion and reciprocity. In particular …, we test the relevance of their input variables (second-order beliefs and general dispositions for guilt/reciprocity). The … data confirm the predictions of belief-dependant models. Both second-order beliefs and a participant's sensitivity to guilt/reciprocity …
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