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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - 2021
We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit … individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them - as well as subjects' elicited beliefs - to explain … based on this data, we show that the decline of cooperation can be driven by the fact that most people have a preference to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316430
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A theory of reciprocity
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398368
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Super-additive cooperation
Efferson, Charles; Bernhard, Helen; Fischbacher, Urs; … - 2022
Repeated interactions provide a prominent but paradoxical hypothesis for human cooperation in one-shot interactions … mechanism reliably supports the evolution of cooperation when actions vary continuously. Ambiguous reciprocity, a strategy … generally ruled out in models of reciprocal altruism, completely undermines cooperation under repeated interactions, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013465492
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Living in two neighborhoods : social interactions in the LAB
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2003
Field evidence suggests that agents belonging to the same group tend to behave similarly, i.e., behavior exhibits social interaction effects. Testing for such effects raises severe identification problems. We conduct an experiment that avoids these problems. The main design feature is that each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507945
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Living in two neighborhoods : social interaction effects in the lab
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2009
; identification ; experiments ; coordination ; cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003799774
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Living in Two Neighborhoods - Social Interactions in the Lab
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2021
Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e., behaviour exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design feature is that each subject simultaneously is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319910
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Living in Two Neighborhoods : Social Interactions in the Lab
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - 2023
Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e.,behaviour exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids theidentification problem present in the field. Our novel design feature is that each subjectsimultaneously is a member...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261034
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A Theory of Reciprocity
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791797
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Social preferences, beliefs, and the dynamics of free riding in public goods experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 541-556
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732313
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Social preferences, beliefs and the dynamics of free riding in public good experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2009
-world settings. We show that the decline of cooperation is driven by individual preferences for imperfect conditional cooperation … or people's heterogeneity in preferences makes voluntary cooperation fragile. Universal free riding thus eventually … cooperation ; free riding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003799823