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See no evil : information chains and reciprocity in teams

Steiger, Eva-Maria; Zultan, Ro'i - 2011

chains facilitate cooperation by balancing positive and negative reciprocity. -- team production ; public goods ; incentives …

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An experimental investigation of colonel blotto games

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2009

This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a...

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Do women behave more reciprocally than men? : gender differences in real effort dictator games

Heinz, Matthias; Juranek, Steffen; Rau, Holger A. - 2011

treatment, reciprocity cannot play a role. We find that female dictators show reciprocity and decrease their taking … effect with male dictators, who generally exhibit more sefish behavior. -- Gender ; Reciprocity ; Dictator Game ; Real Effort …

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Unravelling conditional cooperation : reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring in public goods provision

Cappelletti, Dominique; Güth, Werner; Ploner, Matteo - 2011

cooperation. We try to assess the relative importance of three motives - namely reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring - in … a non-linear voluntary contribution experiment. We find that, for those conditionally cooperating, both reciprocity and … reciprocity. In contrast, anchoring plays only a marginal role. Compared to what previously found in linear voluntary contribution …

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Intentions and consequences : an experimental investigation of trust and reciprocity determinants

Güth, Werner; Mugera, Harriet; Musau, Andrew; Ploner, … - 2012

We experimentally manipulate the efficiency of trust and reciprocity in a modified Investment Game. The aim of our … manipulation is to test whether reciprocity is mainly affected by payoff consequences of trust or by intentions underlying it. We … efficiency of trust as well as by efficiency of reciprocity. However, trustors do not fully exploit the high efficiency gains …

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Punishment fosters efficiency in the minimum effort coordination game

Le Lec, Fabrice; Matthey, Astrid; Rydval, Ondřej - 2012

Using a laboratory experiment, we examine whether informal monetary sanctions can lead to better coordination in a repeated minimum effort coordination game. While most groups first experience inefficient coordination, the efficiency increases substantially after introducing an ex post...

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More than outcomes : a cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2011

-regarding behavior ; self-image ; experiments ; cognitive dissonance ; social norms ; normative beliefs ; expectations …

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Volunteering and the strategic value of ignorance

Morath, Florian - 2011

Private provision of public goods often takes place as a war of attrition: individuals wait until someone else volunteers and provides the good. After a certain time period, however, one individual may be randomly selected. If the individuals are uncertain about their cost of provision, but can...

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Directed generosity and network formation: Network dimension matters

D'Exelle, Ben; Riedl, Arno - 2010

We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network dimensions (friendship, social support, economic exchange, etc.) in a rural village in the Southern hemisphere and measure generosity with a sequence of dictator games conducted in...

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Efficient coordination in weakest-link games

Riedl, Arno; Rohde, Ingrid M. T.; Strobel, Martin - 2011

efficient outcomes, provided they have sufficient freedom to choose their interaction neighborhood. We conduct experiments with …

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