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Competition and the Role of Group Identity

Cornaglia, Francesca - 2019

. However, its relationship with how social groups are formed has received little attention. We design an experiment to analyze … more actively in the team-building task …

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Measuring "Group Cohesion" to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production

Gaechter, Simon; Starmer, Chris; Tufano, Fabio - 2022

We introduce “group cohesion” to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We …

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Voting on punishment systems within a heterogeneous group

Noussair, Charles N.; Tan, Fangfang - 2009

We consider a voluntary contributions game, in which players may punish others after contributions are made and observed. The productivity of contributions, as captured in the marginal-per-capita return, differs among individuals, so that there are two types: high and low productivity. Every two...

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Bribing in Team Contests

Dogan, Serhat - 2020

We study bribing in a sequential team contest with multiple pairwise battles. We allow for asymmetries in winning … prizes and marginal costs of effort; and we characterize the conditions under which (i) a player in a team is offered a bribe … by the owner of the other team and (ii) she accepts the bribe. We show that these conditions depend on the ratios of …

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The value of non-binding announcements in public goods experiments : some theory and experimental evidence

Berlemann, Michael; Dittrich, Marcus; Markwardt, Gunther - 2004

In this paper we present three simple theoretical models to explain the influence of the possibility to make non-binding announcements on investment behaviour in public goods settings. Our models build on the idea that voluntary contributions to the supply of a public good might be motivated by...

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Alliances in the shadow of conflict

Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2012

Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of …

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Cash and Conflict : Large-Scale Experimental Evidence from Niger

Premand, Patrick; Rohner, Dominic - 2023

Conflict undermines development, while poverty, in turn, breeds conflict. Policy interventions such as cash transfers could lower engagement in conflict by raising poor households’ welfare and productivity. However, cash transfers may also trigger appropriation or looting of cash or assets....

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Ideological Motives and Group Decision-Making

Engl, Florian - 2021

This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape group decision-making outcomes. Groups repeatedly decide between a monetarily preferred outcome that generates a high payoff but also an ideologically undesirable externality, or an ideologically preferred outcome that...

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Pricing Group Membership

Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha - 2020

We consider a model where agents differ in their ‘types' which determines their voluntary contribution towards a public good. We analyze what the equilibrium composition of groups are under centralized and centralized choice. We show that there exists a top-down sorting equilibrium i.e. an...

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Individual and Collective Information Acquisition : An Experimental Study

Reshidi, Pellumb; Lizzeri, Alessandro; Yariv, Leeat; … - 2021

Many committees—juries, political task forces, etc.—spend time gathering costly information before reaching a decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions governed by individuals and groups and compare how voting...

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