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The Effects of Group Composition and Fractionalization in a Public Goods Game: An Agent-Based Simulation
Lucas, Pablo; Oliveira, Angela C.M. de; Banuri, Sheheryar - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
Behavioural economics highlights the role of social preferences in economic decisions. Further, populations are heterogeneous; suggesting that group composition may impact the ability to sustain voluntary public goods contributions. This parallels researc
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The Effects of Group Composition and Social Preference Heterogeneity in a Public Goods Game: An Agent-Based Simulation
Lucas, Pablo; Oliveira, Angela C.M. de; Banuri, Sheheryar - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 17 (2014) 3, pp. 5-5
composition and the weight individuals place on their beliefs versus their underlying social preference type. We then examine the …
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Divided Loyalties or Conditional Cooperation? An experimental study of contributions to multiple public goods
McCarter, Matthew W.; Samak, Anya C.; Sheremeta, Roman M. - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2013
It is common in organizational life to be simultaneously involved in multiple collective actions. These collective actions may be modeled using public good dilemmas. The developing social dilemma literature has two perspectives – the “divided loyalties” and “conditional cooperation”...
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A note on optimal incentives with state-dependent preferences
Hwang, Sung-Ha; Bowles, Samuel - Research Institute for Market Economy, Sogang University - 2011
In both experimental and natural settings incentives sometimes under-perform, generating smaller eects on the targeted behaviors than would be predicted for entirely self-regarding agents. A parsimonious explanation is that incentives that appeal to payo maximizing mo- tives may crowd out...
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On the evolution of conditional cooperation
Guttman, Joel M. - In: European Journal of Political Economy 30 (2013) C, pp. 15-34
A long series of laboratory and field experiments, as well as conventional empirical studies, has established that (1) individuals voluntarily provide themselves with public goods at levels exceeding those predicted by the Nash voluntary contributions mechanism, and (2) agents reciprocate...
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Can intentions spoil the kindness of a gift? - An experimental study
Strassmair, Christina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Consider a situation where person A undertakes acostly action that benefits person B. This behavior seems altruistic. However, if A expects a reward in return from B, then A's action may be motivated by expected rewards rather than by pure altruism. The question we address in this experimental...
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Moral Emotions and Partnership
Bracht, Jürgen; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
theory on moral emotions to belief-dependant models in economics. We find that - in addition to second-order beliefs and …
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Other-regarding behaviour: Testing guilt- and reciprocity-based models
Regner, Tobias; Harth, Nicole S. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
, we test the relevance of their input variables (second-order beliefs and general dispositions for guilt/reciprocity). The … data confirm the predictions of belief-dependant models. Both second-order beliefs and a participant's sensitivity to guilt …/reciprocity are relevant for the decisions taken. Second-order beliefs appear to have an inverse U-shaped effect on the extent of kind …
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Group composition and conditional cooperation
Smith, Alexander - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 40 (2011) 5, pp. 616-622
related to beliefs about the contributions of others, especially others from the same teams, rather than minority …
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Toward a Theory and Agent-Based Model of the Networked Economy
Parinov, Sergei - The Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering … - 1999
What kind of information interactions among agents makes possible a functioning of socio-economic systems? What theory do we need to describe the fundamental principles of agents' information interactions? What is the model to simulate functioning of networked economy arisen in Information...
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