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that group identity is a key factor in the explanation of intergroup cooperation and competition. …
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Under what conditions can cooperation be sustained in a network of strangers? Here we study the role of institutions … possible, including full intertemporal cooperation supported by a social norm based on community punishment of defectors. We … coordination on intertemporal cooperation in ways that networks of strangers were unable to achieve through social norms. …
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Previous research on gender differences in behavior has led to seemingly contradictory findings about generosity. From data generated by 290 subject pairs, we find that women are more sensitive than men to the costs of generous actions when deciding whether to be generous. The factors that...
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of those gains. Incentive contracting in these environments does not crowd-out off-equilibrium cooperation, and at high … incentive levels cooperation is crowded in …
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Previous research on gender differences in behavior has led to seemingly contradictory findings about generosity. From data generated by 290 subject pairs, we find that women are more sensitive than men to the costs of generous actions when deciding whether or not to be generous. The factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058912
Charness and Dufwenberg (2006) find that promises increase cooperation and suggest that the behavior of subjects in …
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) and mixed (different nationality) experimental sessions in Lima, to examine interactions that require cooperation …
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We investigate the welfare effect of increasing competition in an anonymous two-sided matching market, where matched pairs play an infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma. Higher matching efficiency is usually considered detrimental as it creates stronger incentives for defection. We point out,...
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We investigate the welfare effect of increasing competition in an anonymous two-sided matching market, where matched pairs play an infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma. Higher matching efficiency is usually considered detrimental as it creates stronger incentives for defection. We point out,...
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nationally representative samples from six other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries (France …
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