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Teams Punish Less
Auerswald, Heike - 2013
punishment option and compare it to the behavior of individuals in a laboratory experiment. We also consider different team … investigates team decisions in different settings. We study team decisions in a public goods contribution game with a costly …, regardless of the team decision rule. Overall, teams yield higher payoffs than individuals …
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Cost Sharing in Collective Contests
Nitzan, Shmuel - 2014
This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...
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Prize Sharing in Collective Contests
Nitzan, Shmuel; Ueda, Kaoru - 2021
The characteristics of endogenously determined sharing rules and the group-size paradox are studied in a model of group contest with the following features: (i) The prize has mixed private-public good characteristics. (ii) Groups can differ in marginal cost of effort and their membership size....
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An Analysis of Peer Effects on Vaccination Behavior Using a Model of Privately Provided Public Goods
Ibuka, Yoko - 2018
Traditional economic models of vaccination behavior simply assume that agents free-ride on the vaccination decisions of others. We provide three different models of private provision of a public good, such as a joint production model and a conjectural variation model, to explain how a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920121
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Private Provision of Public Goods and Information Diffusion in Social Groups
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2021
We describe a dynamic model of costly information sharing, where private information affecting collective-value actions is transmitted by social proximity. Individuals make voluntary contributions towards the provision of a pure public good, and information transmission about quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315678
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Competing for Recognition Through Public Good Provision
Polborn, Mattias - 2021
Consider a setting in which several groups of individuals with common interests (clubs) compete with each other for recognition by other individuals. Depending on the context, recognition may be expressed by these other individuals joining a club, or choosing one club to admire. Clubs compete by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317500
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I (Don't) Like You! But Who Cares? Gender Differences in Same Sex and Mixed Sex Teams
Gerhards, Leonie - 2017
We study the effect of likability on female and male team behavior in a lab experiment. Extending a two-player public … goods game and a minimum effort game by an additional pre-play stage that informs team members about their mutual likability … on gender differences in labor market outcomes: mutual dislikability impedes team behavior, except in all-male teams …
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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 …
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Conditional Cooperation and the Effect of Punishment
Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2018
We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish others. In particular, we disentangle the decision to be a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912687
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Existence, Uniqueness, and Algorithm for Identifying Free Riders in Multiple Public Good Games : Replacement Function Approach
Suzuki, Ken-ichi - 2018
This study shows the uniqueness of Nash equilibrium in the model of multiple voluntarily supplied public goods with potential contributors possessing different Cobb-Douglas preferences. This study provides a sufficient condition for uniqueness using graph theory. This sufficient condition allows...
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