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Public Goods, Property Rights, and Investment Incentives : An Experimental Investigation
Kusterer, David J. - 2019
Who should own public projects? We report data from a laboratory experiment with 480 participants that was designed to test Besley and Ghatak's (2001) public-good version of the Grossman-Hart-Moore property rights theory. Consider two parties, one of whom can invest in the provision of a public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891817
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Another hidden cost of incentives : the detrimental effect on norm enforcement
Fuster, Andreas; Meier, Stephan - 2009
Monetary incentives are often considered as a way to foster contributions to public goods in society and firms. This … paper investigates experimentally the effect of monetary incentives in the presence of a norm enforcement mechanism. Norm … monetary incentives interact with punishment and how this in turn affects contributions. Our main findings are that free riders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003813638
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Exclusion and Reintegration in a Social Dilemma
Solda, Alice - 2018
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/10012930960
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Exclusion and Reintegration in a Social Dilemma
Solda, Alice - 2018
Using a social dilemma 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 willing to exclude...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012932981
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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/10011776036
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Another Hidden Cost of Incentives : The Detrimental Effect on Norm Enforcement
Fuster, Andreas; Meier, Stephan - 2011
Monetary incentives are often considered as a way to foster contributions to public goods in society and firms. This … paper investigates experimentally the effect of monetary incentives in the presence of a norm enforcement mechanism. Norm … monetary incentives interact with punishment and how this in turn affects contributions. Our main findings are that free riders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046786
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Group Cooperation Under Alternative Punishment Institutions : An Experiment
Casari, Marco; Luini, Luigi - 2005
In an experiment we study different peer punishment institutions to shed light on how cooperative norms can emerge in groups. The results suggest that there is a strong emotional component that drives agents to punish and that alters their ability to behave strategically. Moreover, we identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063871
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Exclusion and Reintegration in a Social Dilemma
Solda, Alice; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2019
The existing literature on ostracism in social dilemma games has focused on the impact of the threat of exclusion on cooperation within groups but so far, little attention has been paid to the behavior of the excluded members after their reintegration. This paper studies the effect of exclusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119565
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Incentives, self-selection, and coordination of motivated agents for the production of social goods
Bauer, Kevin; Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021
We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated …). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in … prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591754
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Incentives, self-selection, and coordination of motivated agents for the production of social goods
Bauer, Kevin; Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021
We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated …). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in … prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599052