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Social Ties in a Public Good Experiment
van Dijk, Frans; Sonnemans, Joep; van Winden, Frans - 1996
The formation of social ties is examined in an experimental study of voluntary public good provision. The experiment …
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005
in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325392
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Does Stake Size matter for Cooperation and Punishment?
Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - 2006
The effects of stake size on cooperation and punishment are investigated using a public goods experiment. We find that … an increase in stake size does neither significantly affect cooperation nor, interestingly, the level of punishment. …
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Status-Seeking in Violent Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance
Dur, Robert - 2006
This paper develops a model in which individuals gain social status among their peers for being 'tough' by committing violent acts. We show that a high penalty for moderately violent acts (zero-tolerance) may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325377
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Judicial Error by Groups and Individuals
van Dijk, Frans; Sonnemans, Joep H.; Bauw, Ed - 2012
In criminal cases judges evaluate and combine probabilistic evidence to reach verdicts. Unavoidably, errors are made, resulting in unwarranted conviction or acquittal of defendants. This paper addresses the questions (1) whether hearing cases by teams of three persons leads to less error than...
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Group Formation in a Public Good Experiment
Sonnemans, Joep H.; van Dijk, Frans; van Winden, Frans … - 1999
Economic behavior often takes place in groups of small numbers of peopleinteracting with each other (like work teams, neighborhoods, socialnetworks, etc.). Characteristic of such interaction is the development of(affective) interpersonal relationships, or social ties. According tosociologists,...
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Imitation and Belief Learning in an Oligopoly Experiment
Offerman, Theo; Potters, Jan; Sonnemans, Joep - 1997
competitive, the collusive, and the Cournot-Nash outcome, respectively. In the experiment we employ three information treatments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324581
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The Power of a Bad Example -- A Field Experiment in Household Garbage Disposal
Dur, Robert; Vollaard, Ben - 2012
results of a natural field experiment where, in a randomly assigned part of a residential area, the frequency of cleaning was … locations before, during, and after the experiment, we find strong evidence that litter begets litter. However, we also find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014168066
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The Behavioral Impact of Emotions in a Power to take Game: An Experimental Study
Bosman, Ronald; van Winden, Frans A.A.M. - 1999
-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides howmuch income … punishment behavior. (3) Thereare discontinuous “jumps” in the behavior of responders. They either chooseno punishment (destroy … nothing) or the highest level of punishment (destroyeverything). (4) Expectations have a significant effect on the …
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Money talks? An Experimental Investigation of Cheap Talk and Burned Money
de Haan, Thomas; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2011
We experimentally study the strategic transmission of information in a setting where both cheap talk and money can be used for communication purposes. Theoretically a large number of equilibria exist side by side, in which senders either use costless messages, money, or a combination of the two....
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