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cooperation and are consistent with motivations for voluntary contributions of reciprocity and conformity. We also find that there …
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The Conditional Contribution Mechanism for public good provision gives all agents the possibility to condition their contribution on the total level of contribution provided by all agents. In this experimental study the mechanism's performance is compared to the performance of the Voluntary...
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experimentprompted by Weimann's (1994) result, from adeceptive design, that subjects are more sensitive to free-ridingthan cooperation on …
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The expectation that non-cooperators will be punished can help to sustain cooperation, but there are competing claims … undermine cooperation in social dilemmas. Varying treatments of a voluntary contributions experiment, we find that availability … of higher-order punishment opportunities increases cooperation and efficiency when subjects have full information on the …
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This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...
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This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...
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The expectation that non-cooperators will be punished can help to sustain cooperation, but there are competing claims … undermine cooperation in social dilemmas. In a set of experimental treatments, we find that availability of higher …-order punishment increases cooperation and efficiency when subjects have full information on the pattern of punishing, including its …
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People contribute more to public goods, the more others give ('crowding-in'). We investigate two possible causes of crowding-in: reciprocity, the usual explanation, and conformism, a neglected alternative. The issue is important since conformism has more scope to bring about endogenous social...
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experimentprompted by Weimann's (1994) result, from adeceptive design, that subjects are more sensitive to free-ridingthan cooperation on …
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