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provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …
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provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …
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provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …
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We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from … role of social preferences in conditional cooperation …
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We experimentally examine how incentives affect conditional cooperation (i.e., cooperating in response to cooperation … in some games and free ride in others. The rate of conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is … others' payoffs, supporting the underlying role of social preferences in conditional cooperation. Our results suggest that …
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We study the effect of group size on cooperation in voluntary contribution mechanism games. As in previous experiments … find that cooperation is highest of all in twoperson groups. The findings in the high MPCR condition are consistent with … those from n-person prisoner's dilemma and oligopoly experiments that suggest it is more difficult to sustain cooperation in …
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We examine the effect of payoff variations on cooperation in one-shot prisoner's dilemma games. We focus on three … impact on cooperation. Temptation directly deters cooperation and indirectly harms cooperation by lowering beliefs about the … opponent's cooperativeness. Efficiency indirectly affects cooperation through beliefs, but the magnitude of the effect is …
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We compare social preference and social norm based explanations for peer effects in a three-person gift-exchange game experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our baseline treatment we observe that the second...
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