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Leading by words: A voluntary contribution experiment with one-way communication
Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria; Weisser, … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 379-390
commonly accepted wisdom that the cooperation-enhancing effect of communication requires the mutual exchange of promises, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573081
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Leading by Words: A Voluntary Contribution Experiment With One-Way Communication
Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria; Weisser, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
mutual exchange of promises is necessary for the cooperation-enhancing effect of communication, we ï¬nd that, compared to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008487842
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Cycles of conditional cooperation in a real-time voluntary contribution mechanism
Levati, M. Vittoria; Zultan, Ro'i - 2009
This paper provides a new way to identify conditional cooperation in a real-time version of the standard voluntary … behavior. Moreover, notwithstanding a decline in contributions, conditional cooperation is found to be stable over time …. -- Public goods game ; Real-time protocol ; Information feedback ; Conditional cooperation ; Simulations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003828241
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Crossing the Point of No Return: A Public Goods Experiment
Fischbacher, Urs; Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Participants in a public goods experiment receive private or common signals regarding the so-called "point of no return", meaning that if the group's total contribution falls below this point, all payoffs are reduced. An individual faces the usual conflict between private and collective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644963
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A voluntary contribution experiment with one-way communication and income heterogeneity
Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria; Weisser, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
One-way communication has been found to substantially increase contributions in linear voluntary contribution mechanisms. We confirm the robustness of this result in the presence of income heterogeneity.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008773568
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Crossing the point of no return: A public goods experiment
Fischbacher, Urs; Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria - 2011
Participants in a public goods experiment receive private or common signals regarding the so-called point of no return, meaning that if the group's total contribution falls below this point, all payoffs are reduced. An individual faces the usual conflict between private and collective interests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286448
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A voluntary contribution experiment with one-way communication and income heterogeneity
Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria; Weisser, … - 2010
One-way communication has been found to substantially increase contributions in linear voluntary contribution mechanisms. We confirm the robustness of this result in the presence of income heterogeneity.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286472
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Leading by Words: A Voluntary Contribution ExperimentWith One-Way Communication
Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria; Weisser, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009
mutual exchange ofpromises is necessary for the cooperation-enhancing effect of communication,we find that, compared to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009022164
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Voluntary contributions with risky and uncertain marginal returns: the importance of the minimal value
Levati, M. Vittoria; Morone, Andrea - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
efficiency gains, the presence of risk and uncertainty about the public good's value is not detrimental to cooperation. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964131
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Leading by example in a public goods experiment with heterogeneity and incomplete information
Levati, M. Vittoria; Sutter, Matthias; Heijden, Eline … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005
We study the effects of leadership on the private provision of a public good when group members are heterogeneously endowed. Leadership is implemented as a sequential public goods game where one group member contributes first and all the others follow. Our results show that the presence of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765140