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Living in two neighborhoods : social interactions in the LAB
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2003
social interaction effects. Testing for such effects raises severe identification problems. We conduct an experiment that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507945
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Cooperation and punishment in public goods experiments
Fehr, Ernst; Gaechter, Simon - 1999
This paper provides evidence that free riders are heavily punished even if punishment is costly and does not provide … punished. As a consequence, the existence of an opportunity for costly punishment causes a large increase in cooperation levels … because potential free riders face a credible threat. We show, in particular, that in the presence of a costly punishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781678
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 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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Appropriating the commons : a theoretical explanation
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
In this paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without sanctioning possibilities inefficient excess appropriation is...
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Conditional Punishment
Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an … individual are on average significantly positively proportional to other members’ punishment decisions to that individual. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260305
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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428834
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Gender, crime and punishment : evidence from women police stations in India
Amaral, Sofia; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Prakash, Nishith - 2021
We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated with an increase in police reports of crimes...
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Cumplimiento fiscal y bienes públicos: ¿Son realmente compatibles?
Sour, Laura - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
results of an experiment administered in the United States reported by Alm, Jackson and McKee (1992). The results for both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258964
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Perfect-Substitutes, Best-Shot, and Weakest-Link Contests between Groups
Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This experiment investigates contests between groups. Each group has one strong player, with a higher valuation for the …
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Recognizing Contributors: An Experiment on Public Goods
Samek, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We experimentally investigate the impact of recognizing contributors on public good contributions. We vary recognizing all, highest or lowest contributors. Consistent with previous studies, recognizing all contributors significantly increases contributions relative to the baseline. Recognizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112683