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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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Leadership in a public goods experiment with permanent and temporary members
Angelova, Vera; Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin - 2019
We experimentally analyze leading by example in a public goods game with two permanent and two temporary group members. Our results show that leadership when permanent and temporary members interact leads to lower contributions than interaction without leadership.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126333
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Cournot meets Bayes-Nash : a discontinuity in behavior in finitely repeated duopoly games
Argenton, Cédric; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Müller, … - 2023
We conduct a series of Cournot duopoly market experiments with a high number of repetitions and fixed matching. Our treatments include markets with (a) complete cost symmetry and complete information, (b) slight cost asymmetry and complete information, and (c) varying cost asymmetries and...
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A note on empathy in games
Grohn, Jan; Huck, Steffen; Valasek, Justin Mattias - 2014
In this note we shall discuss a concept that - despite its prominence in both Hume (1739) and Smith (1759), its obvious relevance for social behavior, and its not so infrequent use in colloquial language - has never gained a foothold in economic theory: the concept of empathy. Specifically, we...
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Reciprocal preferences in matching markets
Opitz, Timm; Schwaiger, Christoph - 2023 - This version: February 2023
Agents with reciprocal preferences prefer to be matched to a partner who also likes to collaborate with them. In this paper, we introduce and formalize reciprocal preferences, apply them to matching markets, and analyze the implications for mechanism design. Formally, the preferences of an agent...
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Cooperating over losses and competing over gains : a social dilemma experiment
Ispano, Alessandro; Schwardmann, Peter - 2017
whether the prospect of losses can induce cooperation, we let experimental subjects play the travelers dilemma in the gain and …
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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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Relative consumption preferences and public provision of private goods
König, Tobias; Lausen, Tobias - 2017
This paper shows that the public provision of private goods may be justified on pure efficiency grounds in an environment where individuals have relative consumption concerns. By providing private goods, governments directly intervene in the consumption structure, and thereby have an instrument...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626732
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Endogenous group formation in experimental contests
Herbst, Luisa; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2013
may explain their preference to stand alone. -- Endogenous group formation ; contest ; conflict ; alliance ; experiment …
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Lying to individuals versus lying to groups
Angelova, Vera; Tolksdorf, Michel - 2022
We investigate experimentally whether individuals or groups are more lied to, and how lying depends on the group size and the monetary loss inflicted by the lie. We employ an observed cheating game, where an individual's misreport of a privately observed number can monetarily benefit her while...
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