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Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an … individual are on average significantly positively proportional to other members’ punishment decisions to that individual. …

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Power of Joint Decision-Making in a Finitely-Repeated Dilemma

Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

A rich body of literature has proposed that pairs behave significantly differently from individuals due to a number of reasons such as group polarization. This paper experimentally compares cooperation behaviors between pairs and individuals in a finitely-repeated two-player public goods game...

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Peer punishment with third-party approval in a social dilemma game

Tan, Fangfang; Xiao, Erte - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

of the implicated parties who propose the punishment. In a prisoner's dilemma experiment, we find an independent third …This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is a third party independent … party vetoes not only punishment to the cooperators but punishment to the defectors as well. Compared with the case when the …

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Private provision of a public good: cooperation and altruism of internet forum users

Ros-Galvez, Alejandro; Rosa-García, Alfonso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We run an experiment with users of internet message boards. We find that forum users cooperate more with partners of …

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Communication and Efficiency in Competitive Coordination Games

Cason, Timothy; Sheremeta, Roman; Zhang, Jingjing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

with Pareto-ranked equilibria. We report an experiment in which two groups compete in a weakest-link contest by expending …. As a result, intra-group communication decreases while inter-group communication increases payoffs. Our experiment thus …

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Justification and cooperation

Xiao, Erte - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The need for justification is a widely observed social phenomenon. This paper develops a theoretical framework and reports laboratory evidence to show how pure justification pressure affects cooperative behavior in economic exchange environments. In a one-shot anonymous interaction, compared...

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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

with different compared to the same group members. We employ a laboratory experiment to create consensus between these …

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Simultaneous Decision-Making in Competitive and Cooperative Environments

Savikhin, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We experimentally investigate simultaneous decision-making in two contrasting environments: one that encourages competition (lottery contest) and one that encourages cooperation (public good game). We find that simultaneous participation in the public good game affects behavior in the contest,...

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Endogenous Reputation Formation: Cooperation and Identity under the Shadow of the Future

Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

. We deal with this question using an experimental laboratory. Our experiment shows that a non-negligible fraction of …

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