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Unravelling conditional cooperation : reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring in public goods provision
Cappelletti, Dominique; Güth, Werner; Ploner, Matteo - 2011
Extensive research on human cooperation in social dilemmas has shown that individuals condition their behaviour upon … cooperation. We try to assess the relative importance of three motives - namely reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring - in … games, overall we find much less conditional cooperation. In a control treatment with a less complex design, conditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313091
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Social motives in intergroup conflict
Weisel, Ori; Zultan, Ro'i - 2013
We experimentally test the social motives behind individual participation in intergroup conflict by manipulating the framing and symmetry of conflict. We find that behavior in conflict depends on whether one is harmed by actions perpetrated by the out-group, but not on one’s own influence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792169
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Cycles of conditional cooperation in a real-time voluntary contribution mechanism
Levati, M. Vittoria; Zultan, Ro'i - 2009
This paper provides a new way to identify conditional cooperation in a real-time version of the standard voluntary … behavior. Moreover, notwithstanding a decline in contributions, conditional cooperation is found to be stable over time …. -- Public goods game ; Real-time protocol ; Information feedback ; Conditional cooperation ; Simulations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003828241
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Voluntary payments, privacy and social pressure on the Internet : a natural field experiment
Regner, Tobias; Riener, Gerhard - 2013
The emergence of Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) business models as a successful alternative to conventional uniform pricing brings up new questions related to the task of pricing. We investigate the effect of a reduction of privacy on consumers' purchase decisions (whether to buy, and if so how much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792172
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Minimum participation rules with heterogeneous countries
Weikard, Hans-Peter; Wangler, Leo; Freytag, Andreas - 2009
Almost all international environmental agreements include a minimum participation rule. Under such a rule an agreement becomes legally binding if and only if a certain threshold in terms of membership or contribution is reached. We analyze a cartel game with open membership and heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883288
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Voluntary contributions with risky and uncertain marginal returns : the importance of the minimal value
Levati, M. Vittoria; Morone, Andrea - 2009
efficiency gains, the presence of risk and uncertainty about the public good's value is not detrimental to cooperation. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887174
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The provision of public goods with positive group interdependencies
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2010
efficiency. We find that the observed behavior is primarily determined by an imperfect conditional cooperation that prioritizes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952498
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A voluntary contribution experiment with one-way communication and income heterogeneity
Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria; Weisser, … - 2010
One-way communication has been found to substantially increase contributions in linear voluntary contribution mechanisms. We confirm the robustness of this result in the presence of income heterogeneity. -- Public goods experiment ; Cheap talk ; Heterogeneous endowments
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779942
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Leading by words : a voluntary contribution experiment with one-way communication
Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria; Weisser, … - 2009
mutual exchange of promises is necessary for the cooperation-enhancing effect of communication, we find that, compared to a … is one-shot. -- Public goods experiment ; computer-mediated communication ; Cheap-talk ; Cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003924235
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Provision of multilevel public goods through positive externalities : experimental evidence
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2012
conditional cooperation prioritizing local level externalities. Our findings demonstrate how individuals adjust their behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487801