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Behavioral Spillovers in Coordination Games
Cason, Timothy; Savikhin, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Motivated by problems of coordination failure observed in weak-link games, we experimentally investigate behavioral spillovers for minimum- and median-effort coordination games. Subjects play these coordination games simultaneously and sequentially. The results show that successful coordination...
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Divided Loyalists or Conditional Cooperators? Creating Consensus about Cooperation in Multiple Simultaneous Social Dilemmas
McCarter, Matthew; Samek, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
simultaneous social dilemmas. The divided-loyalty hypothesis, from organizational theory, predicts that cooperation will decline as … individuals experience multiple social dilemmas with different compared to the same group members. The conditional-cooperation … hypothesis, from behavioral economics, predicts that cooperation will increase as individuals experience multiple social dilemmas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110225
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Communication and Efficiency in Competitive Coordination Games
Cason, Timothy; Sheremeta, Roman; Zhang, Jingjing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Costless pre-play communication has been found to effectively facilitate coordination and enhance efficiency in games with Pareto-ranked equilibria. We report an experiment in which two groups compete in a weakest-link contest by expending costly efforts. Allowing intra-group communication leads...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113027
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Simultaneous Decision-Making in Competitive and Cooperative Environments
Savikhin, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
competition (lottery contest) and one that encourages cooperation (public good game). We find that simultaneous participation in … strategic uncertainty and path-dependence across games. Our design allows us to compare preferences for cooperation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114132