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Cooperation in small groups: The effect of group size
Nosenzo, Daniele; Quercia, Simone; Sefton, Martin - 2012
Previous experiments have found a moderate, positive effect of group size on cooperation in voluntary contribution … results from n-person prisoner's dilemma and oligopoly experiments where group size has a negative effect on cooperation. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392412
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Cooperation in small groups: The effect of group size
Nosenzo, Daniele; Quercia, Simone; Sefton, Martin - 2013
We study the effect of group size on cooperation in voluntary contribution mechanism games. As in previous experiments … find that cooperation is highest of all in twoperson groups. The findings in the high MPCR condition are consistent with … those from n-person prisoner's dilemma and oligopoly experiments that suggest it is more difficult to sustain cooperation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392420
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Evolution of consistent conjectures in semi-aggregative representation of games, with applications to public good games and contests
Possajennikov, Alex - 2016
In a semi-aggregative representation of a game, the payoff of a player depends on a player's own strategy and on a personalized aggregate of all players' strategies. Suppose that each player has a conjecture about the reaction of the personalized aggregate to a change in the player's own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688533
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Endogenous move structure and voluntary provision of public goods: Theory and experiments
Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin; Possajennikov, Alex - 2009
In this paper we examine voluntary contributions to a public good when the timing of contributions is endogenously determined by contributors, focusing on the simple quasi-linear setting with two players (Varian, 1994). We show that the move order that is predicted to emerge is sensitive to how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277464
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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
and rural participants of young and mature age cohorts. Russia is interesting for studying voluntary cooperation because … cooperation-enhancing effect of punishment. An important reason is that there is punishment of contributors in all four subject … cooperation that are sustained by sanctioning free riders only. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277481
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Endogenous move structure and voluntary provision of public goods: Theory and experiment
Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2010
In this paper we examine voluntary contributions to a public good, embedding Varian (1994)'s voluntary contribution game in extended games that allow players to choose the timing of their contributions. We show that predicted outcomes are sensitive to the structure of the extended game, and also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277509
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The social costs of responsibility
Humphrey, Steven J.; Renner, Elke - 2011
responsibility affects individual risk preferences. Responsibility does, however, crowd-out cooperation in a public goods game. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277514
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Social preferences, beliefs and the dynamics of free riding in public good experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2009
-world settings. We show that the decline of cooperation is driven by individual preferences for imperfect conditional cooperation … or people's heterogeneity in preferences makes voluntary cooperation fragile. Universal free riding thus eventually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277515
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444288
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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/10011444291