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Civic engagement as a second-order public good: The cooperative underpinnings of the accountable state

Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2019

the accountable state by conducting a two-level public goods experiment in which civic engagement can build a sanction …

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Risk Aversion Relates to Cognitive Ability: Fact or Fiction?

Andersson, Ola; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik; … - 2013

population for our experiment. By presenting subjects with choice tasks that vary the bias induced by random choices, we are able …

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Second Thoughts on Free Riding

Nielsen, Ulrik H.; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik - 2013

We use the strategy method to classify subjects into cooperator types in a large-scale online Public Goods Game and find that free riders spend more time on making their decisions than conditional cooperators and other cooperator types. This result is robust to reversing the framing of the game...

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Deciding for Others Reduces Loss Aversion

Andersson, Ola; Holm, Håkan J.; Tyran, Jean-Robert; … - 2013

We study risk taking on behalf of others, both with and without potential losses. A large-scale incentivized experiment …

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Robust Inference in Risk Elicitation Tasks

Andersson, Ola; Holm, Håkan J.; Tyran, Jean-Robert; … - 2020

an economic experiment with subjects from all walks of life, that using structural estimation that models heterogeneity …

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Everyone is a Winner: Promoting Cooperation through All-Can-Win Intergroup Competition

Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i.e. when everyone can be a winner. This type of rank-order competition has the advantage that it can eliminate the negative externality a group's performance imposes on other...

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Microfoundations of Social Capital

Thöni, Christian; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2009

cooperation behavior and we provide a microfoundation for this relation. We run a large-scale public goods experiment over the …

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Public Goods and Voting on Formal Sanction Schemes: An Experiment

Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2010

The burgeoning literature on the use of sanctions to support public goods provision has largely neglected the use of formal or centralized sanctions. We let subjects playing a linear public goods game vote on the parameters of a formal sanction scheme capable both of resolving and of...

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Public Goods and Voting on Formal Sanction Schemes: An Experiment

Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2010

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Cournot Competition and Hit-and-Run Entry and Exit in a Teaching Experiment

Simon GÃ¤chter; Christian ThÃ¶ni; Tyran, Jean-Robert - In: Journal of Economic Education 37 (2006) 4, pp. 418-430

Instructors can use a computerized experiment to introduce students to imperfect competition in courses on introductory … thinking in general, the experiment serves to demonstrate that profits of a firm fall as the number of competitors is increased … in a market and that firms enter profitable markets. The authors have used the experiment in undergraduate classes on …

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