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Despite a large theoretical and empirical literature on public goods and common-pool resources, a systematic comparison of these two types of social dilemmas is lacking. In fact, there is some confusion about these two types of dilemma situations. As a result, they are often treated alike. In...
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Cooperation in spatial evolutionary game theory has revealed various interesting insights into the problem of the …
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This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...
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This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547363
This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137040
As economists increasingly recognize the limits of the canonical self-interest assumption, the lack of a theory of …-constructivist theory of adult development and this theory’s analytical significance to the understanding of behavioral diversity in … into the selected theory provide a reliable basis for predicting participants’ behavior when presented with two different …
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channelled primarily via the beliefs of group members, or directly change their social preferences. We report an experiment with …
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Rules are thought to persist to the extent that the direct benefits of having them (e.g. reduced transactions costs) exceed the costs of enforcement and of occasional misapplications. We argue that a second crucial role of rules is as screening mechanisms for identifying cooperative types. Thus...
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in preference as the key explanatory mechanism. We report an experiment using the minimal group paradigm and a prisoner …
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may be encouraged by risk aversion and/or inequality aversion.The first part of our experiment is devoted to the …
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