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Conditional cooperation : behavioral regularities from the lab and the field and their policy implications
Gächter, Simon (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003321822
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Living in two neighborhoods : social interaction effects in the lab
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2009
interaction effects. We conduct a laboratory experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field and allows us …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003799774
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Interest rates in group lending : a behavioural investigation
Abbink, Klaus (contributor); Irlenbusch, Bernd (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001835623
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Historical self-governance and norms of cooperation
Rustagi, Devesh - 2022
effect persist, and if so, why? I investigate these questions using a natural experiment in Switzerland. In the middle … experiment, World Values Survey, and Swiss Household Panel consistently shows that individuals from historically self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822061
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Entry or exit? : the effect of voluntary participation on cooperation
Nosenzo, Daniele; Tufano, Fabio - 2015
examine the relative effectiveness of these two mechanisms in a one-shot, two-person public goods game experiment. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504597
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Group identity and leading-by-example
Drouvelis, Michalis; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2012
We study the interplay between leading-by-example and group identity in a public goods game experiment. A common …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535527
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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417195
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The behavioural mechanisms of voluntary cooperation in WEIRD and non-WEIRD societies
Weber, Till O.; Beranek, Benjamin; Gächter, Simon; … - 2021
We provide a framework to uncover behavioural mechanisms driving potential cross-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. We deploy our framework in one-shot public goods experiments in the US and the UK, and in Morocco and Turkey. We find that cooperation is higher in the US and UK than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549763
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Political self-serving bias and redistribution
Deffains, Bruno; Espinosa, Romain; Thoeni, Christian - 2015
We explore the impact of the self-serving bias on the supply and demand for redistribution. We present results from an … experiment in which participants decide on redistribution after performing a real effort task. Dependent on individual … results confirm and expand previous findings on the self-serving bias: successful participants are more likely to attribute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434294
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Promoting cooperation : the distribution of reward and punishment power
Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2012
Recent work in experimental economics on the effectiveness of rewards and punishments for promoting cooperation mainly examines decentralized incentive systems where all group members can reward and/or punish one another. Many self-organizing groups and societies, however, concentrate the power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578208