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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma : an experiment

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011

dampens cooperation, though only slightly. Surprisingly, externalities are immaterial. If we control for beliefs, they even … foster cooperation. If we combine both qualifications and do not control for beliefs, we only find an uncertainty effect. If … we add beliefs as a control variable, we only find that externalities enhance cooperation, even if gains from collusion …

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

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2012

participants more pessimistic. However conditional on their beliefs participants are more, not less cooperative if cooperation … Game ; Beliefs …

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We are not alone : the impact of externalities on public good provision

Engel, Christoph; Rockenbach, Bettina - 2009

Providing public goods is hard, because providers are best off free-riding. Is it even harder if one group's public good is a public bad for another group or, conversely, gives the latter a windfall profit? We experimentally study public goods provision embedded in a social context and find that...

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How to protect entitlements : an experiment

Bar-Gill, Oren; Engel, Christoph - 2017

In a full-information, zero transactions costs world, the degree of protection afforded to an entitlement does not affect the likelihood of efficient trade. In reality, imperfect information is often inevitable. Specifically, a party will usually have incomplete information about fairness norms...

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How to protect entitlements : an experiment

Bar-Gill, Oren; Engel, Christoph - 2017

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