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Altruism and voluntary provision of public goods
Sherstyuk, Katerina; Hill, Oliver; Dowling, Malcolm; … - In: Economics Bulletin 3 (2002) 31, pp. 1-8
We study how people's predisposition towards altruism affects their behavior in a voluntary contributions public good … according to their altruism scores, and engage in a voluntary contributions game. We consider whether the levels and dynamics of …'' altruism has only a weak positive effect on group behavior in the public good game. …
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Altruism and voluntary provision of public goods
Sherstyuk, Katerina; Hill, Oliver; Dowling, Malcolm; … - In: Economics Bulletin 3 (2002) 31, pp. 1-8
We study how people's predisposition towards altruism affects their behavior in a voluntary contributions public good … according to their altruism scores, and engage in a voluntary contributions game. We consider whether the levels and dynamics of …'' altruism has only a weak positive effect on group behavior in the public good game. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005110820
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Do I care if you know I betrayed you?
Cox, James C; Li, Danyang - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 2839-2848
, but do not really value the outcome of cooperation. …
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Assortative Matching, Information and Cooperation: An Experiment
Yang, Chun-Lei; Yue, Jack - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 414-420
Yang et al.(2007) show that assortative matching mechanisms can induce a high level of cooperation to prevail in … provide information on income distribution and show that cooperation significantly increases overall. Moreover, the effect can … be traced back to a higher cooperation rate for people in the lowest income classes. …
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Assortative Matching, Information and Cooperation: An Experiment
Yang, Chun-Lei; Yue, Jack - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 414-420
Yang et al.(2007) show that assortative matching mechanisms can induce a high level of cooperation to prevail in … provide information on income distribution and show that cooperation significantly increases overall. Moreover, the effect can … be traced back to a higher cooperation rate for people in the lowest income classes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563252
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Municipalities Secession and uncertainty on public goods provision
Ponczek, Vladimir; Mattos, Enlinson; Arvate, Paulo - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 198-203
This paper investigates the causes of municipalities secession in Brazil. We develop a model where the median voter decides on the creation of new municipalities observing the trade-off between loss of scale on public production and increase in federal transfers to his/her municipality. Voters...
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An experimental study of e-mail games with strategic information transmission and communication cost
Kawagoe, Toshiji; Takizawa, Hirokazu - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 2921-2929
We experimentally examined several versions of Rubinstein (1989)'s e-mail game in the laboratory. He shows that, in the unique equilibrium of this game, players behave as if no information is exchanged, no matter how many messages are successfully sent. This has been regarded as a "paradox of...
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Comment on social preferences, beliefs, and the dynamics of free riding in public good experiments
Smith, Alexander - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 923-931
Fischbacher and Gaechter (AER, 2010) find that contributions decline in repeatedly played public good games because people are imperfect conditional cooperators who match others' contributions only partly. We re-examine the data using dynamic panel data methods and find that contributions also...
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Does prompting for revision influence subjects' offers in willingness to accept – willingness to pay lab experiments?
Kingsley, David C.; Brown, Thomas C. - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2580-2585
The willingness to accept – willingness to pay disparity raises questions about accepted economic theory. Plott and Zeiler (2005) have suggested that the disparity is the result of subject misconception about experimental procedures and, in an experiment designed to control for subject...
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Is trust an ambiguous rather than a risky decision?
Corcos, Anne; Pannequin, François; Bourgeois-gironde, Sacha - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2255-2266
According to an early approach, the decision to trust in the one-shot anonymous trust game is intuitively tantamount to a risky decision: the willingness to bet on the reciprocation of my investment. In a seminal study, Eckel and Wilson (2004) explored the correlation between risk attitudes (as...
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