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Do reciprocators exploit or resist moral wiggle room? : an experimental analysis

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015

By now there is substantial experimental evidence that people make use of "moral wiggle room" (Dana et al., 2007), that is, they tend to exploit moral excuses for selfish behavior. However, this evidence is limited to dictator games. In our experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether...

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A Note on the Design of Experiments Involving Public Goods

Graves, Philip E. - 2021

economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free …-world dimension of free riding. In a cash-in-advance economy, free riding becomes a two-stage problem, while existing experiments only … the public good and leisure is valuable. Existing experiments start with a given number of “tokens” for each decision …

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Partial Coercion, Conditional Cooperation, and Self-Commitment in Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods

Cettolin, Elena - 2011

, non-coerced subjects rationally adjust their beliefs about contribution behavior of coerced subjects they do not increase …

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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....

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Strong, Bold, and Kind : Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian … - 2021

We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels of cooperation. This means that there is...

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Security of Property as a Public Good : Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2021

We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...

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Broken punishment networks in public goods games : experimental evidence

Leibbrandt, Andreas; Ramalingam, Abhijit; Sääksvuori, … - 2012

Abundant evidence suggests that high levels of contributions to public goods can be sustained through self-governed monitoring and sanctions. This experimental study investigates the effectiveness of decentralized sanctioning institutions where punishment opportunities are restricted to agents...

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Voluntary payments, privacy and social pressure on the Internet : a natural field experiment

Regner, Tobias; Riener, Gerhard - 2013

The emergence of Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) business models as a successful alternative to conventional uniform pricing brings up new questions related to the task of pricing. We investigate the effect of a reduction of privacy on consumers' purchase decisions (whether to buy, and if so how much...

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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...

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Reciprocity Networks and the Participation Problem

Dufwenberg, Martin - 2014

Reciprocity can be a powerful motivation for human behaviour. Scholars argue that it is relevant in the context of private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The interaction of reciprocity with cost-sharing is critical....

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