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Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa …
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It is well known that communication often serves as a facilitator for cooperation in static games. Yet, communication … investigates cooperation and non-binding communication in a two-stage game. More specifically, two treatments are considered: one …-play communication only has a significant impact on cooperation when no intra-play communication is possible. The results suggest that …
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We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from psychology. A series of experiments, including a pre-registered replication, reveals strong positive...
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Vertrauen hat Konjunktur. Seit etlichen Jahren ist es en vogue, Vertrauen einzufordern. - Politiker fordern das "Vertrauen" der Wähler und konstatieren konsterniert, dass sie das Vertrauen der Wähler verloren haben (Der Spiegel Nr. 26; 2004: 24, Müntefering: 'Uns ist das Vertrauen der Menschen...
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We study the stability properties of organizations in partition function games, describing cooperative situations with externalities. An organization is defined as a group of agents, together with a set of bilateral relations, formally, a connected graph. Because of the presence of...
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-play communication: numerical (tabular) only, and verbal and numerical. We find that either kind of pre-play communication increases … trusting, trustworthiness, or both, in inter-subject comparisons, but that the inclusions of verbal communication generates …
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We examine the effectiveness of three democratically chosen rules that alleviate the coordination and cooperation … limitation of livestock numbers. All rules were designed in a way that facilitated cooperation or coordination of actions. The … not sufficient for high rule compliance and an overall enhancement in cooperation. Rules turned out to be inefficient if …
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Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? In this paper the principal's evaluation is private information, but she can provide some justifications by sending a costly message. Indeed, it is optimal for the principal to explain her evaluation to the agent if and only if the...
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While the public good experiment has been used to analyze cooperation among various groups in Western Europe and North … altruistic punishment, to antisocial punishment, and ultimately to enhanced cooperation in Turkish society. …
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groups but where entrepreneurs have a desire for cooperation and peace. We assert that it is members of the elites who start …
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