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This paper provides a comparison of tax morale between inhabitants of East and West Germany in its post … particularly interesting for the analysis of tax morale as it is close to a natural experiment. Many factors can be controlled … prior to the separation after the Second World War. As a consequence, an East-West comparison has a methodological advantage …
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We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from … role of social preferences in conditional cooperation …
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Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa …
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We consider the psychological and social foundations of human contributions and punishments in a voluntary contributions mechanism with punishment (VCMP). We eliminate ‘dynamic economic linkages’ between the two stages of our ‘modified’ VCMP to rule out other potential explanations. We...
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supported by the laboratory experiment, although those regarding individuals’ contribution decisions are consistent with the …
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prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …
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exist in work teams. Our results show that the introduction of a team allocator leads to pronounced cooperation in both …
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This paper reports on experiments regarding cheap talk games where senders attempt deception when their interests are not in conflict with those of the receiver. The amount of miscommunication is higher than in previous experimental findings on cheap talk games in situations where senders’ and...
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adoption of better technology by a country outside the cooperation, which may exacerbate an existing underprovision problem. In … formation of future partial coalitions encourages the country outside the cooperation to adopt better technology, which could …
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would be expected from non-cooperative theory. Second, this possible solidarity among 'brothers in arms' when fighting …
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