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The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing
Gaechter, Simon - 2017
A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953878
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Sequential versus Simultaneous Contributions to Public Goods : Experimental Evidence
Gaechter, Simon - 2009
We report an experiment comparing sequential and simultaneous contributions to a public good in a quasi-linear two-person setting (Varian, Journal of Public Economics, 1994). Our findings support the theoretical argument that sequential contributions result in lower overall provision than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763994
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Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation
Thöni, Christian - 2014
Social preferences and social influence effects (“peer effects”) are well documented, but little is known about how … peers shape social preferences. Settings where social preferences matter are often situations where peer effects are likely … contradicts major theories of social preferences which predict that efforts are unrelated, or negatively related. Some theories …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054323
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Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion
Cubitt, Robin P. - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018458
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Sequential versus Simultaneous Contributions to Public Goods: Experimental Evidence
Gaechter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - CESifo - 2009
We report an experiment comparing sequential and simultaneous contributions to a public good in a quasi-linear two-person setting (Varian, Journal of Public Economics, 1994). Our findings support the theoretical argument that sequential contributions result in lower overall provision than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000384