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Confusion and reinforcement learning in experimental public goods games

Bayer, Ralph-C.; Renner, Elke; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2009

. The results show that reinforcement learning leads to dynamics similar to those observed in standard public goods games … explained by reinforcement learning. According to our estimates, learning only accounts for 41 percent of the decay in …, differ strongly from the learning dynamics, while a learning model estimated from the limited information treatment tracks …

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Arms races and conflict: Experimental evidence

Abbink, Klaus; Dong, Lu; Huang, Lingbo - 2019

We study escalation and aggression in an experimental first-strike game in which two participants play multiple rounds of a money-earning task. In each round, both players can spend money to accumulate weapons. The player with more weapons can spend money to strike against the other player,...

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Fungibility, labels and consumption

Abeler, Johannes; Marklein, Felix - 2010

Fungibility of money is a central assumption in the theory of consumer choice: any unit of money is substitutable for another. This implies that the composition of income or wealth is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple, incentivized setup many...

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The framing of games and the psychology of play

Dufwenberg, Martin; Gächter, Simon; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike - 2010

Psychological game theory can provide rational-choice-based framing effects; frames influence beliefs, beliefs influence motivations. We explain this theoretically and explore empirical relevance experimentally. In a 2×2 design of one-shot public good games we show that frames affect subject's...

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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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Living in two neighborhoods: Social interaction effects in the lab

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2009

Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e., behavior exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct a laboratory experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field and allows us to study the behavioral logic of social...

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Preference reversals and disparities between willingness to pay and willingness to accept in repeated markets

Loomes, Graham; Starmer, Chris; Sugden, Robert - 2009

Previous studies suggest that two otherwise robust 'anomalies' - preference reversals and disparities between buying and selling valuations - are eroded when respondents participate in repeated markets. We report an experiment which investigates whether this is true when factors neglected in...

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Vendettas

Bolle, Friedel; Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Zizzo, Daniel John - 2010

Vendettas occur in many real world settings where rivals compete for a prize, e.g., winning an election or a competitive promotion, by engaging in retaliatory aggressive behavior. We present a benchmark experiment where two players have an initial probability of winning a prize. Retaliatory...

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Social preferences, beliefs and the dynamics of free riding in public good experiments

Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2009

One lingering puzzle is why voluntary contributions to public goods decline over time in experimental and real-world settings. We show that the decline of cooperation is driven by individual preferences for imperfect conditional cooperation. Many people's desire to contribute less than others,...

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Him or her? Choosing competition on behalf of someone else

Fornwagner, Helena; Pompeo, Monika; Serdarevic, Nina - 2020

We extend the literature on competitive behaviour by investigating environments in which the choice to compete is not made by an individual themselves, but by someone else. Choosing on behalf of others is an integral part of life and gender may be an important factor in shaping the perceived...

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