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Ostracism and the provision of a public good
Maier-Rigaud, Frank P.; Martinsson, Peter; Staffiero, … - 2005
We analyze the effects of ostracism on cooperation in a linear public good experiment. Our results show that … introducing ostracism increases contributions. Despite reductions in group size due to ostracism, the net effect on earnings is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264779
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Ostracism in alliances of teams and individuals: Voting, exclusion, contribution, and earnings
Huber, Stephan; Model, Jochen; Städter, Silvio - 2019
the possibility to vote for the exclusion of non-cooperating allies, i.e. ostracism, can be a powerful negative referendum … to increase allies' contributions to the collective good. However, it is found that ostracism does not necessarily … increase earnings in a public goods game. In particular, it is shown that the ostracism mechanism is used differently by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984921
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Exclusion and Reintegration in a Social Dilemma
Solda, Alice; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2017
Using a negatively framed public good game, we study the cooperative behavior of individuals who reintegrate their group after being excluded by their peers. We manipulate the length of exclusion and whether this length is imposed exogenously or results from a vote. We show that people are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816499
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Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting
Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - 2015
This paper analyzes responsibility attributions for outcomes of collective decision making processes. In particular, we ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process. We conduct an experimental voting game in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282471
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Public Goods and Voting on Formal Sanction Schemes: An Experiment
Puttermann, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310728
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Contests with incumbency advantages: An experiment investigation of the effect of limits on spending behavior and outcome
Otsubo, Hironori - 2012
This paper experimentally investigates the effect of limits on campaign spending and outcome in an electoral contest where two candidates, an incumbent and a challenger, compete for office in terms of the amount of campaign expenditure. The candidates are asymmetric only in that the incumbent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291825
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More than words: Communication in intergroup conflicts
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2010
Numerous studies suggest that communication may be a universal means to mitigate collective action problems. In this study, we challenge this view and show that the communication structure crucially determines whether communication mitigates or intensifies the problem of collective action. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281661
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Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes: An experiment
Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287731
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The Perks of Being in the Smaller Team: Incentives in Overlapping Contests
March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2019
provision. We test our model in a laboratory experiment and confirm its main predictions. Our results have important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099071
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Other-regarding Preferences, Group Identity and Political Participation: An Experiment
Robalo, Pedro; Schram, Arthur; Sonnemans, Joep - 2013
We experimentally study the relationship between other-regarding preferences, group identity and political participation. In doing so, we propose a novel group identity induction procedure that succeeds in creating environments where in-group bias is either high or low. At the individual level,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326365