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Isolating and identifying motivations: A voluntary contribution mechanism experiment with interior Nash equilibria
Kumakawa, Takehisa; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Yamato, Takehiko - School of Economics and Management, Kochi University of … - 2015
cooperative motivation when they know the other subject's payoff information. Altruistic motivation is found to be rare throughout … the experiment. …
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'Altruistic' and 'Antisocial' Punishers are One and the Same
Eriksson, Kimmo; Cownden, Daniel; Ehn, Micael; … - In: Review of Behavioral Economics 1 (2014) 3, pp. 209-221
unrelated to altruism. First, individual use of punishment was uncorrelated with contribution to the public good, contrary to …
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Is altruism bad for cooperation?
Hwang, Sung-Ha; Bowles, Samuel - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83 (2012) 3, pp. 330-341
cooperation may be less than additive. Using a utility function embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional … altruism attenuates the punishment motive and thus may reduce the level of punishment inflicted on defectors, resulting in … lower levels of contribution. Increases in altruism may also reduce the level of benefits from the public project net of …
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Social Background, Cooperative Behavior, and Norm Enforcement
Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechansism have been documented in cross-cultural studies, recently. We present data which prove that stark...
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Social background, cooperative behavior, and norm enforcement
Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 341-354
Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechanism have been documented in cross-cultural studies, recently. We present data which prove that stark...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573033
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From locality to continent: A comment on the generalization of an experimental study
Kamei, Kenju - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 2, pp. 207-210
Kocher et al. (2008) find that conditional willingness to contribute to a public good is considerably stronger at a U.S. research site, Appalachian State University, than at sites in Europe and Asia. I find that the willingness at Brown University, in Rhode Island, is not significantly different...
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Microfoundations of social capital
Thöni, Christian; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 7-8, pp. 635-643
heterogeneous samples at low cost. We validate such survey measures in an incentivized public good experiment and show that they are …
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Functional unpleasantness: the evolutionary logic of righteous resentment
Heller, William; Sieberg, K. - In: Public Choice 135 (2008) 3, pp. 399-413
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The Problem of Cooperation and Reputation Based Choice
Bergh, Andreas; Engseld, Peter - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2005
The standard method when analyzing the problem of cooperation using evolutionary game theory is to assume that people are randomly matched against each other in repeated games. In this paper we discuss the implications of allowing agents to have preferences over possible opponents. We model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190588
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Theories of the evolution of cooperative behaviour: A critical survey plus some new results
Rowthorn, Robert E.; Guzmán, Ricardo Andrés; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Gratuitous cooperation (in favour of non-relatives and without repeated interaction) eludes traditional evolutionary explanations. In this paper we survey the various theories of cooperative behaviour, and we describe our own effort to integrate these theories into a self-contained framework....
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