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Facing Your Opponents: Social Identification and Information Feedback in Contests

Mago, Shakun; Samak, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We experimentally investigate the effect of social identification and information feedback on individual behavior in …. Identifying subjects through photo display decreases wasteful effort. Providing information feedback about others’ effort does not … improved information feedback decreases the heterogeneity of effort. …

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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...

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The limits of self-governance when cooperators get punished: Experimental evidence from urban and rural Russia

Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt - 2010

We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we onducted in Russia with 566 urban and rural participants of young and mature age cohorts. Russia is interesting for studying voluntary cooperation because of its long history of collectivism, and a huge...

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Heterogeneous social preference and the dynamics of free riding in public goods

Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2006

We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation … novel test as to whether there are types of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …

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Escalation bargaining: Theoretical analysis and experimental test

Chuah, Swee-Hoon; Hoffmann, Robert; Larner, Jeremy - 2011

The standard chicken game is a popular model of certain important real scenarios but does not allow for the escalation behaviour these are typically associated with. This is problematic if the critical, final decisions in these scenarios are sensitive to previous escalation. We introduce and...

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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion

Cubitt, Robin; 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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Experimental Comparison of Multi-Stage and One-Stage Contests

Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This article experimentally studies a two-stage elimination contest and compares its performance with a one-stage contest. Contrary to the theory, the two-stage contest generates higher revenue than the equivalent one-stage contest. There is significant over-dissipation in both stages of the...

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Resource Allocation Contests: Experimental Evidence

Shupp, Robert; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Many resource allocation contests have the property that individuals undertake costly actions to appropriate a potentially divisible resource. We design an experiment to compare individuals’ decisions across three resource allocation contests which are isomorphic under risk-neutrality. The...

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Essays on Experimental Investigation of Lottery Contests

Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

A contest is a situation in which individuals or groups expend costly resources while competing to win a specific prize. The variety of economic situations that can be described as contests has attracted enormous attention from economic theorists. Despite the extensive theoretical research of...

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Best-of-Three Contest Experiments: Strategic versus Psychological Momentum

Mago, Shakun; Sheremeta, Roman; Yates, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We conduct an experimental analysis of a best-of-three contest. Intermediate prizes lead to higher efforts, while increasing the role of luck (as opposed to effort) leads to lower efforts. Both intermediate prizes and luck reduce the probability of contest ending in two rounds. The patterns of...

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