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The limits of self-governance when cooperators get punished: Experimental evidence from urban and rural Russia

Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt - 2010

We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we onducted in Russia with 566 urban and rural participants of young and mature age cohorts. Russia is interesting for studying voluntary cooperation because of its long history of collectivism, and a huge...

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Overbidding and Heterogeneous Behavior in Contest Experiments

Sheremeta, Roman M. - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2013

We provide an overview of experimental literature on contests and point out the two main phenomena observed in most contest experiments- (i) overbidding relative to the standard Nash equilibrium prediction and (ii) heterogeneous behavior of ex-ante symmetric contestants. Based on the sample of...

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Can Groups Solve the Problem of Over-Bidding in Contests

Sheremeta, Roman M.; Zhang, Jingjing - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2009

This study reports an experiment that examines whether groups can better comply with theoretical predictions than … individuals in contests. Our experiment replicates previous findings that individual players significantly overbid relative to … individual players. The new findings of our experiment are that groups make 25% lower bids, their bids have lower variance, and …

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The attack and defense of weakest-link networks

Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2010

This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of targets, in which the attacker's objective is to successfully attack at least one target and the defender's objective is diametrically opposed. We apply two benchmark contest...

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Using the strategy method and elicited beliefs to explain group size and MPCR effects in public good experiments

Gächter, Simon; Mariño Fages, Diego - 2023

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Preferences and perceptions in provision and maintenance public goods

Gächter, Simon; Kölle, Felix; Quercia, Simone - 2022

We study two generic versions of public goods problems: in Provision problems, the public good does not exist initially and needs to be provided; in Maintenance problems, the public good already exists and needs to be maintained. In five lab and online experiments (n=2,584), we document a robust...

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Preferences and perceptions in provision and maintenance public goods

Gächter, Simon; Kölle, Felix; Quercia, Simone - 2022

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Living in Two Neighborhoods : Social Interactions in the Lab

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2004

interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design …

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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...

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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014

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