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Everyone is a Winner : Promoting Cooperation Through All-Can-Win Intergroup Competition
Reuben, Ernesto - 2011
We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i.e. when everyone can be a winner. This type of rank-order competition has the advantage that it can eliminate the negative externality a group's performance imposes on other...
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Image Versus Information : Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
Ali, S. Nageeb - 2016
We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990864
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Living in Two Neighborhoods : Social Interactions in the Lab
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - 2023
interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids theidentification problem present in the field. Our novel design feature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261034
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I (Don't) Like You! But Who Cares? Gender Differences in Same Sex and Mixed Sex Teams
Gerhards, Leonie - 2017
We study the effect of likability on female and male team behavior in a lab experiment. Extending a two-player public … goods game and a minimum effort game by an additional pre-play stage that informs team members about their mutual likability … on gender differences in labor market outcomes: mutual dislikability impedes team behavior, except in all-male teams …
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Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision : An Experimental Analysis
Fellner-Röhling, Gerlinde - 2011
vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128231
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Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations
Reuben, Ernesto - 2011
Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134522
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Network Architecture and Mutual Monitoring in Public Goods Experiments
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2010
Recent experiments show that public goods can be provided at high levels when mutual monitoring and costly punishment are allowed. All these experiments, however, study monitoring and punishment in a setting where all agents can monitor and punish each other (i.e., in a complete network). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136030
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Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments
Masclet, David - 2012
punishment, so that they increase overall welfare? We report an experiment in which players can issue non-binding threats to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115640
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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment : Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan - 2011
This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one on the most religious day during Ramadan (the Night of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117607
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New Insights into Conditional Cooperation and Punishment from a Strategy Method Experiment
Cheung, Stephen L. - 2011
This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or punishment profiles using the strategy method. It is found that the selfish bias in conditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125147