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The demand for punishment to promote cooperation among like-minded people
Bühren, Christoph; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2020
We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate irrespective of punishment and therefore have a lower demand for a costly punishment institution than groups of like-minded free riders, who are unable to cooperate without...
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Bargaining with charitable promises : true preferences and strategic behavior
Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021
We report experimental findings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...
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Donations to increase productivity in public good production : experimental evidence
Struwe, Natalie; Blanco, Esther; Walker, James - 2023 - This version: March 2023
This research is inspired by in-kind donations that have the capacity to increase the marginal benefit (productivity) in provision of public goods, for example by providing critical infrastructure that increases the productivity of resources utilized by local public good providers. We provide...
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Contribution games and the end-game effect : when things get real ; an experimental analysis
Bar-El, Ronen; Tobol, Yossi - 2013
We conduct a contribution game for a real public good and show that when the contributors value the real public good highly, they increase their contributions in each round. Thus, contrary to previous literature, free riding decreases over rounds and the end-game effect is reversed. -- public...
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Inequality Aversion and Asymmetric Cooperation in N-Player Public Good Games
Hariskos, Wasilios - 2017
Conditional cooperation is an important factor in voluntary cooperation. Fehr and Schmidt (1999) show that in public good games conditional cooperation among rational players is feasible if cooperators are sufficiently inequality averse and if there are not too many free riders. The derived...
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A Trace of Anger is Enough : On the Enforcement of Social Norms
Steiner, Jakub - 2005
It is well documented that the possibility of punishing free-riders increases contributions in one-shot public good games. I demonstrate theoretically that minimal punishment commitments (perhaps provided by anger) may lead to high contribution levels. Thus, almost selfish players may behave as...
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Playing with the good guys : a public good game with endogenous group formation
Brekke, Kjell Arne; Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Lind, Jo Thori; … - 2009
may attract more responsible employees. -- altruism ; conditional ; cooperation ; self-selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850332
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A theory of reciprocity
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind … ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by … the intention underlying this action. The theory explains the relevant stylized facts of a wide range of experimental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398368
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The influence of induced care and anger motives on behavior, beliefs and perceptions in a public goods game
Bartke, Simon; Bosworth, Steven; Snower, Dennis J.; … - 2016
This study analyzes the stability of preferences through the lens of psychological motives. We report the results of a public goods experiment in which subjects were induced with the motives of Care and Anger through autobiographical recall. Subjects' preferences, beliefs, and perceptions under...
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Playing with the good guys : a public good game with endogenous group formation
Brekke, Kjell Arne (contributor) - 2009
may attract more responsible employees. -- Altruism ; conditional cooperation ; self-selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003826571