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Previous research has suggested that communication and especially promises increase cooperation in laboratory experiments. This has been taken as evidence for internal motivations such as guilt aversion or preference for promise keeping. The goal of this paper was to examine messages under a...
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Charness and Dufwenberg (Am. Econ. Rev. 101(4):1211–1237, <CitationRef CitationID="CR10">2011</CitationRef>) have recently demonstrated that cheap-talk communication raises efficiency in bilateral contracting situations with adverse selection. We replicate their main finding and extend their design to include competition between agents....</citationref>
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We use instrumental variables for estimating the causal effect of beliefs on contributions in repeated public good games. The effect is about half as large as suggested by ordinary least squares. Thus, we present evidence that beliefs have a causal effect on contributions, but also that beliefs...
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motivated by trust in positive reciprocity or fear of negative reciprocity, in addition to unconditional other … reciprocity. The experimental designs include control treatments that discriminate among actions with alternative motivations …
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contractual flexibility allows us to study incentive compatibility simultaneously with issues of 'fair sharing' and reciprocity …' and reciprocity. In contrast to other incentive devices studied in the literature, the incentives are 'reciprocity …
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research is to extend past work on trust and reciprocity by examining the impact of the social contexts within which social … reciprocity differ in the contexts of inter-individual and inter-group interactions. First, I examine whether dynamics of trust … and reciprocity differ in various inter-group interactions where inter-group decisions are operationalized as 1 …
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