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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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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

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

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Selfishness as a potential cause of crime : a prison experiment

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

For a rational choice theorist, the absence of crime is more difficult to explain than its presence. Arguably, the expected value of criminal sanctions, i.e. the product of severity times certainty, is often below the expected benefit. We rely on a standard theory from behavioral economics,...

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Social dilemmas, revisited from a heuristics perspective

Engel, Christoph - 2004

The standard tool for analysing social dilemmas is game theory. They are reconstructed as prisoner dilemma games. This is helpful for understanding the incentive structure. Yet this analysis is based on the classic homo oeconomicus assumptions. In many real world dilemma situations, these...

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