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The Tragedy of Corruption
Chen, Yefeng; Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2016
We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the …' corruptibility but is not sufficient to eliminate the Tragedy of corruption that leads both firms and officials to earn less than in … the absence of corruption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559603
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Punishing Free-Riders : How Group Size Affects Mutual Monitoring and the Provision of Public Goods
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2004
Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding …, regardless of the size or structure of groups. However, experiments show that people will punish free riders, even at … strategies seen in the lab and use the simulation to develop hypotheses about why group size should matter when punishment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262078
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It's all about Connections: Evidence on Network Formation
Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - 2003
We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to form links to one another …. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The gametheoretic basis for our experiment is the model of Bala and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262760
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Punishing Free-Riders: How Group Size Affects Mutual Monitoring and the Provision of Public Goods
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding …, regardless of the size or structure of groups. However, experiments show that people will punish free riders, even at … strategies seen in the lab and use the simulation to develop hypotheses about why group size should matter when punishment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703051
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On the Impact of Quotas and Decision Rules in Ultimatum Collective Bargaining
Feicht, Robert; Grimm, Veronika; Rau, Holger A.; … - 2015
We conduct multi-person one-shot ultimatum games that reflect important aspects of collective bargaining. In all treatments a proposer has to divide a pie among herself and two groups of three recipients each. She cannot discriminate within, but across groups. A committee with representatives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401785
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It's all about Connections: Evidence on Network Formation
Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to form links to one another …. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The gametheoretic basis for our experiment is the model of Bala and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761658
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Information and Beliefs in a Repeated Normal-Form Game
Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea; Danz, David N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We study beliefs and choices in a repeated normal-form game. In addition to a baseline treatment with common knowledge of the game structure and feedback about choices in the previous period, we run treatments (i) without feedback about previous play, (ii) with no information about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822932
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Anger Management: Aggression and Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods
Gee, Laura Katherine; Lyu, Xinxin; Urry, Heather - 2017
welfare is reduced is that punishment can express anger about free-riding. If this is the case, then tools that regulate … aggression. In this lab experiment, we find that adopting an objective attitude (Objective), through a form of emotion regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653227
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Peers or Police? Detection and Sanctions in the Provision of Public Goods
DeAngelo, Gregory; Gee, Laura Katherine - 2018
actions of bad actors. However, in many situations bad acts go undetected and unknown to others. We use a lab experiment to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873544
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Voting with feet: community choice in social dilemmas
Gürerk, Özgür; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rockenbach, Bettina - 2009
in social dilemmas. Participants repeatedly choose between a community with and an alternative without punishment … opportunities. Within each community a social dilemma game is played. While the community with punishment grows over time and fully …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269682