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We study how the willingness to enter long-term bilateral relationships affects cooperation even when parties have … little information about each other, ex ante, and cooperation is otherwise unenforceable. We experimentally investigate a … research, longer interactions facilitate cooperation. However, many individuals avoid long-term commitment, with uncooperative …
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cooperation is shaped by the way information about risk is presented (from description or from experience) and by differences in … lotteries with equivalent levels of risk. Cooperation rates in games vary with different levels of risk across decision … stochastic social dilemmas than in the lotteries. The findings highlight how an uncertain environment shapes cooperation and call …
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change the payoff structure of the game in favor of cooperation. Second, this mechanism is robust even when players deviate …
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Punishment has been shown to be an effective reinforcement mechanism. Intentional or not, punishment will likely generate spillover effects that extend beyond one’s immediate decision environment, and these spillovers are not as well understood. We seek to understand these secondary spillover...
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conflicts. A first experiment shows that a between-group conflict leads to within-group cooperation and particularly individuals … personal costs of within-group versus collective cooperation, supporting the weighted average social preference theory by …
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to achieve cooperation in n-player prisoner's dilemma situations where each player has one behavioral type, either … cooperation. For heterogeneous behavioral type cases, we show that the benefits of cooperation shrink such that the unique outcome … cooperation rate in the stay-leave mechanism experiment is 86.6% across 15 periods, which increases to 96.0% after period 5. We …
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equilibrium prediction that is based on the elicited conditional-cooperation preferences. Moreover, more often than not, beliefs …
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We run a public good experiment with four different treatments. The payoff function is chosen such that the Nash equilibrium (NE) and the collective optimum (CO) are both in the interior of the strategy space. We try to test the effect of varying the level of the collective optimum, which...
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In-group favoritism in social dilemma situations is one of the main findings of studies in Social Identity Theory. We investigate what causes the in-group bias: is it due to mere group affiliation or, alternatively, is guilt-aversion a possible explanation? We induce group membership in a...
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In a multi-agent setting, individuals often compare own performance with that of their peers. These comparisons in?uence agents? incentives and lead to a noncooperative game, even if the agents have to complete independent tasks. I show that depending on the interplay of the peer effects,...
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