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Conditional cooperation with negative externalities : an experiment

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 108 (2014), pp. 252-260

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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma : an experiment

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011

From the perspective of competitors, competition may be modeled as a prisoner's dilemma. Setting the monopoly price is cooperation, undercutting is defection. Jointly, competitors are better off if both are faithful to a cartel. Individually, profit is highest if only the competitor(s) is (are)...

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When is the risk of cooperation worth taking? : the prisoner's dilemma as a game of multiple motives

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2012 - revised version: August 2013

Both in the field and in the lab, participants frequently cooperate, despite the fact that the situation can be modelled as a simultaneous, symmetric prisoner’s dilemma. This experiment manipulates the payoff in case both players defect, and explains the degree of cooperation by a combination...

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Harm on an innocent outsider as a lubricant of cooperation : an experiment

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2012

If two players of a simultaneous symmetric one-shot prisoner's dilemma hold standard prefer-ences, the fact that choosing the cooperative move imposes harm on a passive outsider is imma-terial. Yet if participants hold social preferences, one might think that they are reticent to impose harm on...

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Selfishness as a potential cause of crime : a prison experiment

Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus - 2013

rely on a standard theory from behavioral economics, inequity aversion, to offer an explanation. This theory could also … explain how imperfect criminal sanctions deter crime. The critical component of the theory is aversion against outperforming … others. To test this theory, we exploit that it posits inequity aversion to be a personality trait. We can therefore test it …

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The jurisdiction of the man within : introspection, identity, and cooperation in a public good experiment

Engel, Christoph; Kurschilgen, Michael - 2015

According to Adam Smith (1790), human selfishness can be restrained by introspection. We test the effect of introspection on people’s willingness to cooperate in a public good game. Drawing on the concept of identity utility (George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton, 2000), we show...

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What does "clean" really mean? : the implicit framing of decontextualized experiments

Engel, Christoph; Rand, David G. - In: Economics letters 122 (2014) 3, pp. 386-389

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Selfishness as a Potential Cause of Crime - A Prison Experiment

Chmura, Thorsten - 2013

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How Do Prisoners Solve Their Dilemma? An Experiment

Chmura, Thorsten - 2016

How do actual prisoners solve their proverbial dilemma? In a lab experiment, conducted in a German prison for male juvenile offenders, we find that prisoners are no less cooperative than students in a symmetric two-person prisoner's dilemma. Using data from post-experimental tests, we explain...

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Managing expectations : how selective information affects cooperation and punishment in social dilemma games

Engel, Christoph; Kube, Sebastian; Kurschilgen, Michael - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 187 (2021), pp. 111-136

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