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Reasons behind public goods provision
Raimondi, M. - Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Parma - 2009
In order to examine the role of non-economically measurable factors into the models of voluntary provision of public goods, Experimental Economics showed two systematic findings: (a) in early rounds of game, individual contributions are surprisingly high and increasing, but they tend to decrease...
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The Role of Rivalry
Apesteguia, Jose; Maier-Rigaud, Frank P. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 50 (2006) 5, pp. 646-663
Despite a large theoretical and empirical literature on public goods and common-pool resources, a systematic comparison of these two types of social dilemmas is lacking. In fact, there is some confusion about these two types of dilemma situations. As a result, they are often treated alike. In...
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COOPERATION, COLLECTIVES FORMATION AND SPECIALIZATION
HAUERT, CHRISTOPH - In: Advances in Complex Systems (ACS) 09 (2006) 04, pp. 315-335
Cooperation in spatial evolutionary game theory has revealed various interesting insights into the problem of the …
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How Universal is Behavior? A Four Country Comparison of Spite and Cooperation in Voluntary Contribution Mechanisms
Brandts, Jordi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003
This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547363
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How Universal is Behavior?
Brandts, Jordi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137040
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How Universal is Behavior? A Four Country Comparison of Spite, Cooperation and Errors in Voluntary Contribution Mechanisms
Brandts, Jordi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2002
This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005168485
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How Universal is Behavior?
Brandts, Jordi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257141
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Fear or Greed? Duty or Solidarity? Motivations and Stages of Moral Reasoning: Experimental Evidences from Public-Goods Provision Dilemmas
Meyer, Leandro Fredrico Ferraz; Braga, Marcelo Jose - Departamento de Economia Rural, Universidade Federal de … - 2009
As economists increasingly recognize the limits of the canonical self-interest assumption, the lack of a theory of …-constructivist theory of adult development and this theory’s analytical significance to the understanding of behavioral diversity in … into the selected theory provide a reliable basis for predicting participants’ behavior when presented with two different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009326633
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Group Membership, Team Preferences, and Expectations (This is a new version of CEEL WP 6-09)
Guala, Francesco; Mittone, Luigi; Ploner, Matteo - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2012
in preference as the key explanatory mechanism. We report an experiment using the minimal group paradigm and a prisoner …
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(Over-)Stylizing Experimental Findings and Theorizing with Sweeping Generality
Gueth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut; Levati, M. Vittoria - In: Rationality, Markets and Morals (2009) 11
Human decision making is a process guided by different and partly competing motivations that can each dominate behavior and lead to different effects depending on strength and circumstances. 'Over-stylizing' neglects such competing concerns and context-dependence, although it facilitates the...
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