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implements a new experimental design, the Conditional Information Lottery, which offers all the benefits of deception without … high contributions. No deception is used and the data cohere well both internally and with other public goods experiments …) reciprocity in behaviour, which may explain decay in contributions in repeated play designs. The experiment shows there is a …
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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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counseled to lift their de facto prohibition against deception to capture its potential benefits. To the extent that this … on a discussion of the methodological costs and benefits of deception, we conclude that experimental economists …' prohibition of deception is a sensible convention that economists should not abandon. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002 …
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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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