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Probabilistic Production of a Public Good

Stoddard, Brock V - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 37-52

In a laboratory experiment, the voluntary provision of public goods is investigated when there is probabilistic uncertainty about the monetary return from production of the public good. After group members make their provision decisions, the return is drawn from an exogenously determined...

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Assortative Matching, Information and Cooperation: An Experiment

Yang, Chun-Lei; Yue, Jack - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 414-420

Yang et al.(2007) show that assortative matching mechanisms can induce a high level of cooperation to prevail in … provide information on income distribution and show that cooperation significantly increases overall. Moreover, the effect can … be traced back to a higher cooperation rate for people in the lowest income classes. …

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The emergence of norms from conflicts over just distributions

Miller, Luis; Rauhut, Heiko; Winter, Fabian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

for cooperation, this article proposes a novel theory in which the emergence of norms can be understood as a bargaining …

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Brothers in Arms: Cooperation in Defence

Hugh-Jones, David; Ro'i Zultan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

observe surprisingly high levels of cooperation and altruism within groups in conflict situations such as civil wars. We …

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Structural properties of cooperation networks in Germany: From basic to applied research

Broekel, Tom; Graf, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

industries. The study is based on a new data source on subsidized R&D cooperation in Germany, which is presented in detail and …

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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 participate in a repeated public good game with stochastic outcomes. They can choose each period between staying in the public project or working on their own. There is excessive exit as...

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Of the stability of partnerships when individuals have outside options, or why allowing exit is inefficient

Gaudeul, Alexia; Crosetto, Paolo; Riener, Gerhard - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Should people be allowed to leave joint projects freely or should they be deterred from breaking off? This depends on why people stop collaborating and whether they have good reasons to do so. We explore the factors that lead to the breakdown of partnerships by studying a public good game with...

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Probabilistic Production of a Public Good

Stoddard, Brock V - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 4, pp. 2411-2426

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Probabilistic Production of a Public Good

Stoddard, Brock V - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 4, pp. 2427-2442

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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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