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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 … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …
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Nudging cooperation
Barron, Kai; Nurminen, Tuomas - 2018
post announcement mechanism does not have a significant effect on the cooperation rate. However, the nudge leads to a … striking increase in the cooperation rate. We provide suggestive evidence that the nudge we use provides subjects with a focal …
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Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation : sorting, crowding, and spillovers
Gallier, Carlo; Goeschl, Timo; Kesternich, Martin; … - 2019
We study spatially differentiated competition between charities by partnering with two foodbanks in two neighboring cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial differentiation by varying the observability of charities' location such that each donor...
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Cooperation in a company : a large-scale experiment
Deversi, Marvin; Kocher, Martin; Schwieren, Christiane - 2020
We analyze cooperation within a company setting in order to study the relationship between cooperative attitudes and … online experiment. We observe high levels of cooperation and the typical conditional contribution patterns in a modified …, sustained levels of cooperation in our company setting relate to non-financial values of cooperation rather than solely to …
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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...
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Cybersecurity and financial stability
Anand, Kartik; Duley, Chanelle; Gai, Prasanna - 2022
Cyber attacks can impair banks operations and precipitate bank runs. When digital infrastructure is shared, banks defend themselves by investing in cybersecurity but can free-ride on the security measures of others. Ex ante free-riding by banks interacts with the ex post coordination frictions...
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The demand for voluntary carbon sequestration : experimental evidence from a reforestation project in Germany
Bartels, Lara; Kesternich, Martin; Löschel, Andreas - 2021
With the increasing recognition of the use of reforestation measures as a complement to conventional carbon emissions avoidance technologies it is important to understand the market valuation of local forest carbon sinks for climate change mitigation. We conducted a framed-field experiment among...
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Fostering participation in digital public health interventions : the case of digital contact tracing
Rehse, Dominik; Tremöhlen, Felix - 2020
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has made all the more clear that public health is a public good. Public health interventions try to encourage contributions to this public good. Digital public health interventions are increasingly being used to complement traditional public health interventions. The...
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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...
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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...
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