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worsen them, if individuals possess different degrees of morality. We characterize heterogenous Alger-Weibull morality … for individuals with below (above) average morality. Equilibrium public good provision is not increased by morality, as … long as there are homo oeconomicus individuals. An increase in morality of an individual may reduce total provision of the …
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interaction based on forward-looking conditional cooperation within a standard linear public goods model. Among other things, I … motivated types in the population is rather small. -- Linear Public Goods Games ; Conditional Cooperation ; Ethical Behavior …
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." Furthermore, it offers a rationale for conditional cooperation …
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This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game with punishment in which subjects are given the opportunity to punish other group members (democratic punishment regime) and (ii) a public goods game environment where all group...
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cooperation. We deploy our framework in one-shot public goods experiments in the US and the UK, and in Morocco and Turkey. We find … that cooperation is higher in the US and UK than in Morocco and Turkey. Our framework shows that this result is driven … four subject pools. Our results highlight the central role of beliefs in explaining differences in voluntary cooperation …
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-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. Using one-shot public goods experiments in four comparable subject pools from the US and the … cooperation is lower in Morocco and Turkey than in the UK and the US. Using the ABC approach - in which cooperative attitudes and … beliefs explain cooperation - we show that cooperation is mostly driven by differences in beliefs rather than cooperative …
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We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by … remains unclear. In each of six treatments that vary the cooperation premium and the informational basis for reputation …, that with a high cooperation premium and good information, investment in reputation grows across sets of finitely …
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cooperation through two mechanisms: an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an exit …
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