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Self-serving bias in redistribution choices : accounting for beliefs and norms
Amasino, Dianna; Pace, Davide Domenico; Weele, Joël J. … - 2023
underlying inequality, differing fairness views, and differing perceptions of social norms. In this study, we directly measure … report different fairness views and beliefs about task performance, but not different beliefs about social norms. Further …, only fairness views play a significant mediating role between status and allocation differences, suggesting this is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477403
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Nudging cooperation
Barron, Kai; Nurminen, Tuomas - 2018
This paper experimentally studies two simple interventions aimed at increasing public goods provision in settings in which accurate feedback about contributions is not available. The first intervention aims to exploit lying aversion by requiring subjects to send a non-verifiable ex post...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011982104
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Public good overprovision by a manipulative provider
Celik, Gorkem; Shin, Dongsoo; Strausz, Roland - 2020
We study contracting between a public good provider and users with private valuations of the good. We show that, once the provider extracts the users' private information, she benefits from manipulating the collective information received from all users when communicating with them. We derive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255849
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The choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems : a survey of experimental research
Dannenberg, Astrid; Gallier, Carlo - 2019
A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the opportunity to influence the rules of the game before they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010646
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Habit formation and the Pareto-efficient provision of public goods
Aronsson, Thomas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2017
This paper examines the implications of habit formation in private and public consumption for the Pareto-efficient provision of public goods, based on a two-period model with nonlinear taxation. If the public good supply is time-invariant, the presence of habit formation generally alters the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587590
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The ratchet effect in social dilemmas
Gallier, Carlo; Sturm, Bodo - 2020
In this paper, we investigate whether dynamic incentive schemes lead to a ratchet effect in a social dilemma. We test whether subjects strategically restrict their contribution levels at the beginning of a cumulative public goods game in order to avoid high obligations in the future and how this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012196294
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Individual differences and contribution sequences in threshold public goods
Schüssler, Katharina; Schüßler, Michael; Mühlbauer, … - 2018
Following the notion that organizations often face public good dilemmas when collective action is needed, we use a real-time provision-point mechanism to experimentally explore the process of achieving cooperative equilibria. Specifically, besides exploring group outcomes, we identify individual...
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Motivate the crowd or crowd- them out? : the impact of local government spending on the voluntary provision of a green public good
Bartels, Lara; Kesternich, Martin - 2022
Cities are increasingly hold accountable for climate action. By demonstrating their proenvironmentality through own climate-related activities, they not at least aspire to encourage individual climate protection efforts. Based on standard economic theory there is little reason to assume that...
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Collective minimum contributions to counteract the ratchet effect in the voluntary provision of public goods
Alt, Marius; Gallier, Carlo; Kesternich, Martin; Sturm, Bodo - 2022 - This version: November, 2022
We experimentally test a theoretically promising amendment to the ratchet-up mechanism of the Paris Agreement. The ratchet-up mechanism prescribes that parties’ commitments to the global response to climate change cannot decrease over time and our results confirm that its effect is...
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Coupled lotteries : a new method to analyze inequality aversion
Koch, Melanie; Menkhoff, Lukas; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2019
We develop and implement a new measure for inequality aversion: two peers are endowed with identical binary lotteries and the only choice they make is whether they want to play out the lotteries independently or with perfect positive correlation (coupling). Coupling has no other e ect than...
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