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Governance and group conflict
Koelle, Felix - 2020 - This version: January 2020
experiment that investigates the impact of political institutions within groups on the development of con ict between groups. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171613
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Not all group members are created equal : heterogeneous abilities in inter-group contests
Fallucchi, Francesco; Fatas, Enrique; Kölle, Felix; … - 2018
Competition between groups is ubiquitous in social and economic life, and groups are typically not created equal. Here we experimentally investigate the implications of this general observation on the unfolding of symmetric and asymmetric competition between groups that are either homogeneous or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872326
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Cooperation in small groups : the effect of group size
Nosenzo, Daniele; Quercia, Simone; Sefton, Martin - 2013 - Revised version of 2012-17, This version: 29 July 2013
We study the effect of group size on cooperation in voluntary contribution mechanism games. As in previous experiments, we study four- and eight-person groups in high and low marginal per capita return (MPCR) conditions. We find a positive effect of group size in the low MPCR condition, as in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772221
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Risk taking and information aggregation in groups
Bougheas, Spiros P.; Nieboer, Jeroen; Sefton, Martin - 2015
We report a controlled laboratory experiment examining risk-taking and information aggregation in groups facing a … common risk. The experiment allows us to examine how subjects respond to new information, in the form of both privately …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515798
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Risk taking in diverse groups : gender matters
Nieboer, Jeroen - 2013
Using an experiment with incentivized decisions of groups in the economics laboratory, I investigate the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187863
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Risk taking and information aggregation in groups
Bougheas, Spiros P.; Nieboer, Jeroen; Sefton, Martin - 2014
We report an experiment examining risk taking and information aggregation in groups. Group members come to the table …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371298
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Measuring "group cohesion" to reveal the power of social relationships in team production
Gächter, Simon; Starmer, Chris; Tufano, Fabio - 2022
We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013350846
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Determinants of revolt : evidence from survey and laboratory data
Abbink, Klaus (contributor); Pezzini, Silvia (contributor) - 2005
experiment, we analyse how these factors affect preferences for revolt and revolutionary action. We introduce an experimental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002570041
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Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? : evidence from the lab
Barr, Abigail; Hochleitner, Anna; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2023
the causal relationship running from inequality to instability. Specifically, we conduct a laboratory experiment. In the … experiment, two groups are interacting with each other repeatedly and have an incentive to cooperate even though cooperation … comes at the cost of inter-group inequality. In the second half of the experiment, we vary the extent of the inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444823
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Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? : evidence from the lab
Barr, Abigail; Hochleitner, Anna; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2024 - [Revised version of 2023-13]
causal relationship running from inequality to social instability. We run a laboratory experiment in which two groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529307