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Incentive contracts crowd out voluntary cooperation : evidence from gift-exchange experiments

Gächter, Simon; Kaiser, Esther; Königstein, Manfred - 2024

Explicit and implicit incentives and opportunities for mutually beneficial voluntary cooperation co-exist in many contractual relationships. In a series of eight laboratory gift-exchange experiments, we show that incentive contracts can lead to crowding out of voluntary cooperation even after...

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Social preferences and the variability of conditional cooperation

Baader, Malte; Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, … - 2022

We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first study we conduct online experiments in which subjects play eight Sequential Prisoner's Dilemma games with payoffs systematically varied across games. We find that few second...

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The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing

Gächter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2015

observed to act in isolation from each other. In this paper we use a large-scale dictator game experiment (N = 850) to show …

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The behavioral mechanisms of voluntary cooperation across culturally diverse societies : evidence from the US, the UK, Morocco, and Turkey

Weber, Till O.; Schulz, Jonathan F.; Beranek, Benjamin; … - 2023

We examine the role of cooperative preferences, beliefs, and punishments to uncover potential cross-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. Using one-shot public goods experiments in four comparable subject pools from the US and the UK (two similar Western societies) and Morocco and...

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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion

Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....

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Living in two neighborhoods : social interactions in the lab

Falk, Armin (contributor); Fischbacher, Urs (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design …

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Conducting interactive experiments online

Arechar, Antonio A.; Gächter, Simon; Molleman, Lucas - 2017

. To this end, we conduct a repeated public goods experiment with and without punishment using samples from the laboratory … and the online platform Amazon Mechanical Turk. We chose to replicate this experiment because it is long and logistically … reducing dropout and show that, for our case study, dropouts are exogenous to the experiment. We conclude that data quality for …

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The roles of incentives and voluntary cooperation for contractual compliance

Gächter, Simon; Kessler, Esther; Königstein, Manfred - 2011

Efficiency under contractual incompleteness often requires voluntary cooperation in situations where self-regarding incentives for contractual compliance are present as well. Here we provide a comprehensive experimental analysis based on the gift-exchange game of how explicit and implicit...

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Money illusion and coordination failure

Fehr, Ernst (contributor); Tyran, Jean-Robert (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Revealing the economic consequences of group cohesion

Gächter, Simon; Starmer, Chris; Tufano, Fabio - 2017

We introduce the concept of "group cohesion" to capture the economic consequences of ubiquitous social relationships in group production. We measure group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from psychology. A comprehensive program of new experiments reveals the considerable economic impact...

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