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We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual’s earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...
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laboratory experiment, we conduct a gift-exchange game with a random move representing the chance that a selected agent may not …
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Altruistic punishment is often thought to be a major enforcement mechanism of social norms. I present experimental results from a modified version of the dictator game with third-party punishment, in which third parties can remain ignorant about the choice of the dictator. I find that a...
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youngsters about social norms. We show that this signaling role provides sufficient incentives to sustain costly punishing …
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contribute even in the absence of incentives of this kind, suggesting that their contributions are driven social preferences …. This raises a question of how the lottery incentive interacts with social preferences. We present an experiment in which we …
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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 …
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Cooperation problems are at the heart of many everyday situations. In this paper, we propose a very simple and light …-handed mechanism to sustain cooperation and test its performance in a rich laboratory environment. The mechanism moderates cooperation … in natural settings. -- Public Good ; Behavioral Uncertainty ; Conditional Cooperation ; Information ; First Impressions …
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We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual's earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471466
more susceptible to the influence of this type of nudges. We report evidence from a laboratory public goods experiment …
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We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual's earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264957