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no-punishment network. -- public goods ; experiment ; punishment ; cooperation ; networks … punishment opportunities are restricted to agents who are linked through alternative punishment networks. We find that the … structure of the punishment network significantly impacts contributions to the public good, but not overall efficiencies …
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We provide an example for an errors in variables problem which might be often neglected but which is quite common in lab experimental practice: In one task, attitude towards risk is measured, in another task participants behave in a way that can possibly be explained by their risk attitude. How...
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public goods with positive externalities. -- Public good ; experiment ; groups ; Spillover Game ; social dilemma …
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a non-linear voluntary contribution experiment. We find that, for those conditionally cooperating, both reciprocity and …
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provision of globally important public goods like the global climate. -- Experiment ; Groups ; Public good ; Spillover Game …
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Using a laboratory experiment, we examine whether informal monetary sanctions can lead to better coordination in a … increases substantially after introducing an ex post sanctioning possibility. Namely, subjects can assign punishment points to …-statistic game ; punishment ; sanction ; weakest link …
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Costly signaling of commitment to a group has been proposed as an explanation for participation in religion and ritual. But if the signal’s cost is too small, freeriders will send the signal and behave selfishly later. Effective signaling may then be prohibitively costly. If the average level...
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This paper provides a new way to identify conditional cooperation in a real-time version of the standard voluntary contribution mechanism. Our approach avoids most drawbacks of the traditional procedures because it relies on endogenous cycle lengths, which are defined by the number of...
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different stages: punishment as deterrence; patrol services; and self-defence. What stands out is that a unique characteristic …
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For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs … reduces corruption. -- Corruption ; game theory ; experiment ; risk attitude ; beliefs …
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