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We investigate the effect of a donation incentive tied to contributions to a public good when group members can decide on the size of the donation to be made. An up to 20 % donation of the public good was implemented either exogenously or endogenously by group members. In the Vote treatment,...
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; heterogeneous groups ; punishment ; cooperation ; social norms ; norm enforcement …
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rounds and the end-game effect is reversed. -- public goods experiment ; end-game effect ; free-riding …
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We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …
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We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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equilibrium strategy. Exclusion has a positive impact on cooperation when it is followed by a quick rather than a slow … retaliation. Post-exclusion cooperation and forgiveness depend not only on the length of exclusion but also on the perceived …
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Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes...
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aggression. In this lab experiment, we find that adopting an objective attitude (Objective), through a form of emotion regulation …
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cooperation within groups, it also has a detrimental impact on group earnings in the short run. Could the introduction of pre …-play threats to punish have enough of a beneficial impact on cooperation, while not incurring the cost associated with actual … punishment, so that they increase overall welfare? We report an experiment in which players can issue non-binding threats to …
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refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter …
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