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Is Regulation by Milestones Efficiency Enhancing? - An Experimental Study of Environmental Protection -
Freytag, Andreas; Güth, Werner; Koppel, Hannes; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Viewing individual contributions as investments in emission reduction we rely on the familiar linear public goods- game to set global reduction targets which, if missed, imply that all payoffs are destroyed with a certain probability. Regulation by milestones does not only impose a final...
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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...
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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 … and impulse balance theory. We find good support for the model and demonstrate that it can explain the success rates …
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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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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...
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Broken Punishment Networks in Public Goods Games: Experimental Evidence
Leibbrandt, Andrweas; Ramalingam, Abhijit; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Abundant evidence suggests that high levels of contributions to public goods can be sustained through self-governed monitoring and sanctions. This experimental study investigates the effectiveness of decentralized sanctioning institutions where punishment opportunities are restricted to agents...
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Crossing the Point of No Return: A Public Goods Experiment
Fischbacher, Urs; Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Participants in a public goods experiment receive private or common signals regarding the so-called "point of no return …
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Between-group conflict and other-regarding preferences in nested social dilemmas
Böhm, Robert; Bornstein, Gary; Koppel, Hannes - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
conflicts. A first experiment shows that a between-group conflict leads to within-group cooperation and particularly individuals … second experiment reveals that prosocials' contributions to the group-specific or collective good vary as a function of the … personal costs of within-group versus collective cooperation, supporting the weighted average social preference theory by …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757777