Often in cooperative situations, many aspects of the decision-making environment are uncertain. We investigate how cooperation is shaped by the way information about risk is presented (from description or from experience) and by differences in risky environments. Drawing on research from risky...

We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to platoons. We find that, without competition...

This paper introduces a two-sided methodological framework for studies on cooperation based on a new game design. Presented games are continuous prisoner's dilemma games with positive and negative presentations of an identically structured decision problem. Decision makers can choose an...

This paper investigates the impact of game presentation dependent on ethnical affiliation. Two games representing the same logical and strategical problem are introduced. Presented games are continuous prisoner’s dilemma games where decision makers can choose an individual level of cooperation...

Building upon some education studies finding that cooperative behaviour in class yields better achievements among students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation between schoolmates, which in turn decreases the...

This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the preferences of fishermen whose main, and often only, source of income stems from using a common pool resource (CPR). The exploitation of a CPR involves a negative interpersonal and...

Die Wiener Stadtregion+ zählt zu den dynamischsten Wachstumsregionen Europas. Das Management des Bevölkerungswachstums stellt Stadt und Umland vor umfangreiche planungspolitische Herausforderungen, die eine gemeinsame und abgestimmte Vorgehensweise erforderlich machen. Die diesbezüglichen...

Die Möglichkeiten zur Gestaltung digitaler Lehr- und Lernkonzepte sind vielfältig und mit verschiedenen Potenzialen verbunden. Trotz zahlreicher Bestrebungen digitale Bildungsangebote vermehrt an Hochschulen, Schulen und im Arbeitskontext zu etablieren, hat erst die rasante Ausbreitung von...

Innovationen und Nutzerbeteiligung sind heutzutage im Gestaltungsprozess von Informationssystemen untrennbar miteinander verzahnt. Im Living-Lab-Ansatz kommt die gemeinsame Entwicklung mit dem Nutzer an einen realen Ort. Dieser Forschungsansatz folgt damit dem Paradigma, dass die wichtigen...