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Minimum Participation Rules with Heterogeneous Countries
Weikard, Hans-Peter; Wangler, Leo; Freytag, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Almost all international environmental agreements include a minimum participation rule. Under such a rule an agreement becomes legally binding if and only if a certain threshold in terms of membership or contribution is reached. We analyze a cartel game with open membership and heterogeneous...
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Leading by example in intergroup competition: An experimental approach
Weisser, Johannes - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We investigate leading by example in a public goods game in scenarios with and without intergroup competition. Leading by example is implemented via a sequential decision protocol. We examine both one-shot and repeated interaction and make use of the strategy method to characterize followers'...
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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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Leading by Words in Privileged Groups
Weisser, Johannes - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Koukoumelis et al. (2010, 2012) have shown that one-way communication enhances contributions to public goods. We investigate the effectiveness of one-way communication, when the benefits from the public good are asymmetric and the sender of a message is the main beneficiary of cooperation. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391904
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An experiment on experimental instructions
Bigoni, Maria; Dragone, Davide - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper we treat instructions as an experimental variable. Using a public good game, we study how the instructions' format affects the participants' understanding of the experiment, their speed of play and their experimental behavior. We show that longer instructions do not significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358646
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The Political Economy of International Environmental Agreements: A Survey
Wangler, Leo; Altamirano-Cabrera, JJuan-Carlos; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper surveys the recent literature on the political economy of the formation of international environmental agreements. The survey covers theoretical modelling approaches and empirical studies including experimental work. Central to our survey is the question how the political process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274266
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Use of data on planned contributions and stated beliefs in the measurement of social preferences
Conte, Anna; Levati, M. Vittoria - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In a series of one-shot linear public goods game, we ask subjects to report their contributions, their contribution plans for the next period, and their first-order beliefs about their present and future partner. We estimate subjects' preferences from plans data by a finite mixture approach and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291507
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Unravelling conditional cooperation - Reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring in public goods provision
Cappelletti, Dominique; Güth, Werner; Ploner, Matteo - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Extensive research on human cooperation in social dilemmas has shown that individuals condition their behaviour upon the behaviour of others. However, few attempts have been made to disentangle the motivations backing conditional cooperation. We try to assess the relative importance of three...
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Social motives in intergroup conflict
Weisel, Ori; Ro'i Zultan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We experimentally test the social motives behind individual participation in intergroup conflict by manipulating the … framing and symmetry of conflict. We find that behavior in conflict depends on whether one is harmed by actions perpetrated by … mobilized to do what is good for the group and contribute to the conflict. On the other hand, if people perceive to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695878
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Crossing the Point of No Return: A Public Goods Experiment
Fischbacher, Urs; Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
conflict between private and collective interests above the point of no return, while he incurs the risk of damaging everyone …
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