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Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an … individual are on average significantly positively proportional to other members’ punishment decisions to that individual. …

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Power of Joint Decision-Making in a Finitely-Repeated Dilemma

Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

A rich body of literature has proposed that pairs behave significantly differently from individuals due to a number of reasons such as group polarization. This paper experimentally compares cooperation behaviors between pairs and individuals in a finitely-repeated two-player public goods game...

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Peer punishment with third-party approval in a social dilemma game

Tan, Fangfang; Xiao, Erte - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

of the implicated parties who propose the punishment. In a prisoner's dilemma experiment, we find an independent third …This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is a third party independent … party vetoes not only punishment to the cooperators but punishment to the defectors as well. Compared with the case when the …

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A Theory of Reciprocity

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...

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Private provision of a public good: cooperation and altruism of internet forum users

Ros-Galvez, Alejandro; Rosa-García, Alfonso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We run an experiment with users of internet message boards. We find that forum users cooperate more with partners of …

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Communication and Efficiency in Competitive Coordination Games

Cason, Timothy; Sheremeta, Roman; Zhang, Jingjing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

with Pareto-ranked equilibria. We report an experiment in which two groups compete in a weakest-link contest by expending …. As a result, intra-group communication decreases while inter-group communication increases payoffs. Our experiment thus …

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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice

Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma situation. Experimental results show that the...

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Justification and cooperation

Xiao, Erte - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The need for justification is a widely observed social phenomenon. This paper develops a theoretical framework and reports laboratory evidence to show how pure justification pressure affects cooperative behavior in economic exchange environments. In a one-shot anonymous interaction, compared...

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Behavioral Spillovers in Coordination Games

Cason, Timothy; Savikhin, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Motivated by problems of coordination failure observed in weak-link games, we experimentally investigate behavioral spillovers for minimum- and median-effort coordination games. Subjects play these coordination games simultaneously and sequentially. The results show that successful coordination...

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Divided Loyalists or Conditional Cooperators? Creating Consensus about Cooperation in Multiple Simultaneous Social Dilemmas

McCarter, Matthew; Samek, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

with different compared to the same group members. We employ a laboratory experiment to create consensus between these …

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