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Can Violence Harm Cooperation? Experimental Evidence
De Luca, Giacomo; Sekeris, Petros; Spengler, Dominic - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
While folk theorems for dynamic renewable common pool resource games sustain cooperation as an equilibrium, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262754
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Conditional Cooperation : Disentangling Strategic from Non-Strategic Motivations
Suetens, Sigrid; Reuben, E. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2008
We use a novel experimental design to examine the role of reputational concerns in explaining conditional cooperation … end is known, we can distinguish between strategically and non-strategically motivated cooperation. Second movers who are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090822
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Communication and Guilt in a Prisoner's Dilemma
Suetens, Sigrid; Miettinen, T. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2008
In this paper we measure experienced guilt in a prisoner’s dilemma experiment with pre-play communication. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091182
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Cooperation and Distributive Conflict
Bayer, Ralph-C - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 2015
under which welfare losses from investment in distributional contests destroy welfare gains from voluntary cooperation. We … find that in situations, where the return to cooperation is high, subjects cooperate strongly and welfare exceeds the … predicted non-cooperation levels. If returns to cooperation are low, then subjects still cooperate, but the resources wasted in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184653
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Incomplete Punishment Networks in Public Goods Games: Experimental Evidence
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Ramalingam, Abhijit; Saaksvuori, Lauri - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2013
Abundant evidence suggests that high levels of contributions to public goods can be sustained through self-governed monitoring and sanctions. This experimental study investigates the effectiveness of decentralized sanctioning institutions in alternative punishment networks. Our results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890961
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Virtual vs. Standard Strike: An Experiment
Innocenti, Alessandro; Nicita, Antonio - Dipartimento di Politica Economica, Finanza e Sviluppo … - 2009
In this paper we compare - in the laboratory - stoppage and virtual strike. Our experiment confirms that higher wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017523
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Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game
Bjedov, Tjaša; Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test experimentally whether individuals can avoid a head-to-head confrontation by means of coordinated strategies. In particular we analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214041
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Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game
Bjedov, Tjaša; Madiès, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2015
We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test experimentally whether individuals can avoid a head-to-head confrontation by means of coordinated strategies. In particular we analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251784
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Resources for conflict: Constraint or wealth?
Baik, Kyung Hwan; Chowdhury, Subhashish M.; Ramalingam, … - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2015
We investigate the effects of the availability of resources that can be expended in conflict on conflict intensity. We run a between-subjects Tullock contest in which we vary the contest budget from Low to Medium to High, while keeping the Nash equilibrium bid the same. We find an 'inverted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201870
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Balance of power and the propensity of conflict
Herbst, Luisa; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche … - 2014
We study the role of an imbalance in fighting strengths when players bargain in the shadow of conflict. Our experimental results suggest: In a simple bargaining game with an exogenous mediation proposal, the likelihood of conflict is independent of the balance of power. If bargaining involves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011202941