In an experimental study, we compare individual willingness to cooperate in a public good game after an initial team … public good game with different wealth levels. Our results indicate that the way these sunk costs have been accrued matters … especially for groups on the losing side of the contest: Given the same level of sunk costs, contributions to the public good are …

We investigate experimentally whether the extent of conditional cooperation in public good games depends on the … marginal per capita return (MPCR) to the public good and type of game. The MPCR is varied from 0.2 to 0.4 to 0.8. The "standard …" game, in which three players contribute before a follower, is compared with a leader-follower game, in which one player …

In an experimental study, we compare individual willingness to cooperate in a public good game after an initial team … public good game with different wealth levels. Our results indicate that the way these sunk costs have been accrued matters … especially for groups on the losing side of the contest: Given the same level of sunk costs, contributions to the public good are …

Give-framed game, players contribute to a public good, while in the Take-framed game, players take from an existing public …We study framing effects in repeated social dilemmas by comparing payoff-equivalent Give- and Take-framed public goods …

This paper analyzes the equilibrium strength of prescriptive norms to contribute to public goods. We consider three … methods of establishing what an acceptable contribution to the public good is. Under the first method, the contribution of the … differing in contributions made and thus in the strength of the norm to contribute. Comparing the methods we show that the …

The ability to punish free-riders can increase the provision of public goods. However, sometimes, the benefit of … increased public good provision is outweighed by the costs of punishments. One reason a group may punish to the point that net … aggression. In this lab experiment, we find that adopting an objective attitude (objective), through a form of emotion regulation …

We conduct an artefactual field experiment to compare the individual preferences and propensity to cooperate of three … and contribute less than workers. Temporary and permanent contract workers have similar other-regarding preferences and … display analogous contribution patterns in an anonymous Public Good Game. …

Give-framed game, players contribute to a public good, while in the Take-framed game, players take from an existing public …We study framing effects in repeated social dilemmas by comparing payoff-equivalent Give- and Take-framed public goods …

is in the best interest of a given community. For this purpose, we analyze a public good game with feedback to group … increases the total payoff of the public good as it avoids the feeling of being a sucker for above average contributors. The lie …

We report experimental results on voluntary contributions to public-goods provision from situations in which parties … can create institutions to impose a certain contribution level on its members. We focus on a public-goods game where the …