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Contribution Games and the End-Game Effect : When Things Get Real – An Experimental Analysis

Bar-El, Ronen - 2013

We conduct a contribution game for a real public good and show that when the contributors value the real public good highly, they increase their contributions in each round. Thus, contrary to previous literature, free riding decreases over rounds and the end-game effect is reversed

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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2021

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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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...

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Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas : An Experiment with Police Commissioners

Dickinson, David L. - 2014

Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes...

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Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game

Dai, Zhixin - 2014

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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Delegation and Coordination with Multiple Threshold Public Goods : Experimental Evidence

Corazzini, Luca - 2019

When multiple charities, social programs and community projects simultaneously vie for funding, donors risk …

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Friendship in a Public Good Experiment

Haan, Marco; Kooreman, Peter; Riemersma, Tineke - 2021

We conduct a public good experiment with high school teenagers. Some groups exclusively consist of students that we …

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Living in Two Neighborhoods : Social Interactions in the Lab

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2023

interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids theidentification problem present in the field. Our novel design feature …

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Dishonesty as a Collective-Risk Social Dilemma

Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2022

We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their … reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective sanction affects all the group members, regardless of their individual … trapped in a "Tragedy of Dishonesty", despite the presence of moral costs of lying. The risk of collective sanction is …

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Negotiating Cooperation Under Uncertainty : Communication in Noisy, Indefinitely Repeated Interactions

Dvorak, Fabian - 2018

Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring...

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