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Strategies of cooperation and punishment among students and clerical workers
Bigoni, Maria; Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco - 2012
adopted, and use of punishment opportunities. Students cooperate more than workers, and cooperation increases in both subject … pools when a personal punishment option is available. Students are less likely than workers to adopt strategies of … workers to sanction uncooperative behavior with decentralized punishment and also personal punishment when available. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011734178
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Communication, commitment, and deception in social dilemmas: experimental evidence
Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco; Bigoni, Maria - 2011
Social norms of cooperation are studied under several forms of communication. In an experiment, strangers could make public statements before playing a prisoner's dilemma. The interaction was repeated indefinitely, which generated multiple equilibria. Communication could be used as a tool to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011651645
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An experiment on experimental instructions
Bigoni, Maria; Dragone, Davide - 2011
In this paper we treat instructions as an experimental variable. Using a public good game, we study how the instructions' format affects the participants' understanding of the experiment, their speed of play and their experimental behavior. We show that longer instructions do not significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011651686
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Strategies of cooperation and punishment among students and clerical workers
Bigoni, Maria; Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco - 2012
adopted, and use of punishment opportunities. Students cooperate more than workers, and cooperation increases in both subject … pools when a personal punishment option is available. Students are less likely than workers to adopt strategies of … workers to sanction uncooperative behavior with decentralized punishment and also personal punishment when available. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011651720
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Cooperation Hidden Frontiers: The Behavioral Foundations of the Italian North-South Divide
Bigoni, Maria; Bortolotti, Stefania; Casari, Marco; … - 2013
Socio-economic performance differs not only across countries but within countries too and can persist even after religion, language, and formal institutions are long shared. One interpretation of these disparities is that successful regions are characterized by higher levels of trust, and, more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011651774
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Money is more than memory
Bigoni, Maria; Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco - 2015
Impersonal exchange is the hallmark of an advanced society and money is one key institution that supports it. Economic theory regards money as a crude arrangement for monitoring counterparts' past conduct. If so, then a public record of past actions—or memory—should supersede the function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011651921
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Money and the Scale of Cooperation
Bigoni, Maria; Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco - 2015
This study reveals the existence of a causal link between the availability of money and an expanded scale of interaction. We constructed an experiment where participants chose the group size, either a low-value partnership or a high-value group of strangers, and then faced an intertemporal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011651936
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A Tale of Two Cities: An Experiment on Inequality and Preferences
Bigoni, Maria; Bortolotti, Stefania; Rattini, Veronica - 2018
In an online experiment, we exploit the existing disparities in socio-economic status within an Italian city, to study how these differences correlate with preferences in strategic and non-strategic situations. Our findings indicate that participants living in an area characterized by a high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931723
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Money is more than memory
Bigoni, Maria; Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco - 2014
Impersonal exchange is the hallmark of an advanced society. One key institution for impersonal exchange is money, which economic theory considers just a primitive arrangement for monitoring past conduct in society. If so, then a public record of past actions - or memory - supersedes the function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427219
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An experiment on experimental instructions
Bigoni, Maria; Dragone, Davide - 2011
In this paper we treat instructions as an experimental variable. Using a public good game, we study how the instructions' format affects the participants' understanding of the experiment, their speed of play and their experimental behavior. We show that longer instructions do not significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281615