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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
altruism, and (3) the possibility of sustained mutual cooperation in finitely repeated social dilemmas is affected by the …
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Is Altruism Bad for Cooperation?
Hwang, Sung-Ha; Bowles, Samuel - Research Institute for Market Economy, Sogang University - 2011
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 in?icted on defectors, resulting in lower … levels of contribution. Increases in altruism may also reduce the level of bene?ts from the public project net of …
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Social Background, Cooperative Behavior, and Norm Enforcement
Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - 2009
Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use of and the reaction to the introduction of a norm enforcement mechanism have recently been documented in cross-cultural studies. We present data that prove that stark...
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Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game
Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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Ambiguity on audits and cooperation in a public goods game
Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2014
We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739568
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Cooperation across Organizational Boundaries: Experimental Evidence from a Major Sustainability Science Project
Waring, Timothy M.; Goff, Sandra Hughes; McGuire, Julia; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 3, pp. 1171-1190
the collaborative abilities and cooperative tendencies of researchers. We use an economic experiment to measure …
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Group Identity and Leading-by-Example
Drouvelis, Michalis; Nosenzo, Daniele - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2012
We study the interplay between leading-by-example and group identity in a public goods game experiment. A common …
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The role of beliefs, trust, and risk in contributions to a public good
Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Matzat, Dominik; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011
This paper experimentally investigates the role of beliefs, trust, and risk in shaping cooperative behavior. By applying incentivized elicitation methods to measure these concepts, we find that beliefs about others’ behavior and trust are positively associated with cooperation in a public...
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An individualistic approach to institution formation in public good games
Ramalingam, Abhijit; Godoy, Sara; Morales, Antonio J.; … - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2014
In a repeated public goods setting, we explore whether individuals, acting unilaterally, will provide an effective sanctioning institution. Subjects first choose unilaterally whether they will participate in a sanctioning stage that follows a contribution stage. Only those who gave themselves...
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Promoting Competition or Helping Less-Endowed? An Experiment on Collective Institutional Choices under Intra-Group Inequality
Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Unequally-distributed resources, whether people’s income or competence, are ubiquitous in our real world. Whether to promote competition or to lead to a more equal environment is often in question in societies or organizations. With heterogeneous endowments, we let subjects collectively choose...
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