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Fear of being left alone drives inefficient exit from partnerships : an experiment

Crosetto, Paolo; Gaudeul, Alexia; Riener, Gerhard - 2014

We explore in an experiment what leads to the breakdown of partnerships. Subjects are assigned a partner and participate in a repeated public good game with stochastic outcomes. They can choose each period between staying in the public project or working on their own. There is excessive exit as...

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State or private security supply? : an analysis from the institutional economics perspective

Bretschneider, Wolfgang; Freytag, Andreas; Rieckmann, … - 2022

The issue of internal security has become increasingly complex over the past decades. As there is an increasing overlap between private and public provision of security, the question of how to allocate responsibility for security between the public sphere (state) and the private sphere has...

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Between-group conflict and other-regarding preferences in nested social dilemmas

Böhm, Robert; Bornstein, Gary; Köppel, Hannes - 2014

conflicts. A first experiment shows that a between-group conflict leads to within-group cooperation and particularly individuals … personal costs of within-group versus collective cooperation, supporting the weighted average social preference theory by …

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An experiment on experimental instructions

Bigoni, Maria; Dragone, Davide - 2011

In this paper we treat instructions as an experimental variable. Using a public good game, we study how the instructions' format affects the participants' understanding of the experiment, their speed of play and their experimental behavior. We show that longer instructions do not significantly...

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Secret Santa : anonymity, signaling, and conditional cooperation

Hugh-Jones, David; Reinstein, David - 2009

anonymous, subjects are better at predicting second-stage behavior, and maintain a substantially higher level of cooperation …

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Motives of sanctioning : equity and emotions in a public good experiment with punishment

Crosetto, Paolo; Güth, Werner; Mittone, Luigi; Ploner, … - 2012

We study conditional cooperation based on a sequential two-person linear public good game in which a trusting first … conditions of a strong norm of conditional cooperation. Punishment is generally low, it is higher when not delayed and it is not … reciprocity norm, irrespective of monetary consequences. -- Public good games ; Punishment ; Experiments ; Conditional cooperation …

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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 …

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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...

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Of the stability of partnerships when individuals have outside options, or why allowing exit is inefficient

Crosetto, Paolo; Gaudeul, Alexia; Riener, Gerhard - 2015

Should people be allowed to leave joint projects freely or should they be deterred from breaking off? This depends on why people stop collaborating and whether they have good reasons to do so. We explore the factors that lead to the breakdown of partnerships by studying a public good game with...

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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 …

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