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Examining spillovers between long and short repeated prisoner's dilemma games played in the laboratory
Arechar, Antonio A.; Kouchaki, Maryam; Rand, David G. - In: Games 9 (2018) 1/5, pp. 1-16
from one continuation probability to the other. When switching from large to small, transient higher levels of cooperation … are observed in the early games of the small continuation set. Conversely, when switching from small to large, cooperation … probabilities. These asymmetries suggest a bias in favor of cooperation. Finally, we examine the link between altruism and RPD play …
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Examining spillovers between long and short repeated prisoner's dilemma games played in the laboratory
Arechar, Antonio A.; Kouchaki, Maryam; Rand, David G. - In: Games 9 (2018) 1, pp. 1-16
from one continuation probability to the other. When switching from large to small, transient higher levels of cooperation … are observed in the early games of the small continuation set. Conversely, when switching from small to large, cooperation … probabilities. These asymmetries suggest a bias in favor of cooperation. Finally, we examine the link between altruism and RPD play …
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Ad-valorem taxes, prices and content diversification in the news market
Pires, Armando José Garcia - In: Games 14 (2023) 2, pp. 1-28
In this paper, we look at two research questions. First, can lower ad-valorem taxes, on the selling of news and on the selling of advertising, conduce to lower prices in the media sector? Second, can lower ad-valorem taxes stimulate firms to increase the diversity of content that they offer? The...
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Second-price auctions with private entry costs
Kaplan, Todd R.; Sela, Aner - In: Games 13 (2022) 5, pp. 1-14
We study asymmetric second-price auctions under incomplete information. The bidders have two potentially different, commonly known, valuations for the object and private information about their entry costs. The seller, however, does not benefit from these entry costs. We calculate the...
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Alleviation and sanctions in social dilemma games
Drouvelis, Michalis - In: Games 6 (2015) 3, pp. 368-380
This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game with punishment in which subjects are given the opportunity to punish other group members (democratic punishment regime) and (ii) a public goods game environment where all group...
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Competitive centipede games : zero-end payoffs and payoff inequality deter reciprocal cooperation
Krockow, Eva M.; Pulford, Briony D.; Colman, Andrew M. - In: Games 6 (2015) 3, pp. 262-272
Reciprocal cooperation can be studied in the Centipede game, in which two players alternate in choosing between a … investigated cooperation in four Centipede games differing in their payoffs at the game's end (positive versus zero) and payoff … high payoff inequality were found to reduce cooperation significantly. Contrary to previous predictions, combining these …
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Should law keep pace with society? : relative update rates determine the co-evolution of institutional punishment and citizen contributions to public goods
Roithmayr, Daria; Isakov, Alexander; Rand, David - In: Games 6 (2015) 2, pp. 124-149
Until recently, theorists considering the evolution of human cooperation have paid little attention to institutional … maximize compliance? We investigate this question by modeling the co-evolution of law and cooperation in a public goods game …' updating of their contribution strategy and observe the effect on Citizen cooperation. We find that when States have unlimited …
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Punishment, cooperation, and cheater detection in "noisy" social exchange
Bornstein, Gary; Weisel, Ori - In: Games 1 (2010) 1, pp. 18-33
Explaining human cooperation in large groups of non-kin is a major challenge to both rational choice theory and the … theory of evolution. Recent research suggests that group cooperation can be explained by positing that cooperators can punish … information conditions, where cheating is less obvious, punishment is much less effective in enforcing cooperation. Evidently, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009751389
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Coevolution of cooperation, response to adverse social ties and network structure
Segbroeck, Sven Van; Santos, Francisco C.; Pacheco, Jorge M. - In: Games 1 (2010) 3, pp. 317-337
increase of cooperation, which is here extended to all two-player social dilemmas. In addition, we discuss the role of the …
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Coordination and cooperation problems in network good production
Knigge, Antonie; Buskens, Vincent Willem - In: Games 1 (2010) 3, pp. 357-380
together rather than investing separately. We study the coordination and cooperation problems that might hinder successful … partners for collaboration, while cooperation problems arise at the investment levels of partners who have already agreed to …. It is mostly found that if cooperation is successful in terms of investment, it is due to subjects being able to monitor …
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