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mitigate cooperation problems, recent years have seen an increasing interest in the endogenous implementation of these … aspects of natural environments: i) heterogeneity among players in the benefits of cooperation, ii) (a)symmetry in players … fail to address differences in players' benefits from cooperation – even if rejecting the institution causes monetary …
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of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect … prosocial judges (if institutionally possible), and immediately establish a social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears … to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment …
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We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and …. The application of sanctions activates a "virtuous emotional circle" that accompanies cooperation. Emotionally aroused … punished, and increase their subsequent level of cooperation. The outcome is an increased level of contribution that becomes …
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This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties' valuations of the goods produced, and the degree of impurity of these goods. When the degree of...
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We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual's earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...
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We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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concept of cooperation and explore the extent to which this intervention brings about changes in peopleメs voluntary … contributions to the public good and self-reported emotional responses. Our findings suggest that priming cooperation increases …
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Culture as reflected in social and religious norms may be pivotal to social organization in a decentralised economy where local authorities are responsible for the provision of local public goods. We distinguish between individualist and collectivist cultures to argue that collectivist culture...
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ethic of mutual cooperation), and less spending on roads, public transport, communications etc. in communities which have a … model to argue that communities which enjoy a higher level of mutual cooperation would benefit less from investment in … members and therefore makes it more difficult to sustain intra-community cooperation. Surprisingly, investment in …
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whether, for only one game, there is an institution enforcing cooperation and vary also whether the institution is imposed … enhances cooperation in the other game thus documenting a positive spillover effect. These spillover effects are economically …
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