Providing public goods is hard, because providers are best off free-riding. Is it even harder if one group's public good is a public bad for another group or, conversely, gives the latter a windfall profit? We experimentally study public goods provision embedded in a social context and find that...

Numerous laboratory experiments show that workers reciprocate to high wages with high effort, when there is perfect information on the surplus created. Recent field experiments, however, suggest that trust and reciprocity may be lower or absent when the information is incomplete. We report a...

Macht spielt eine zentrale Rolle in Interaktionen mit Interessenkonflikten. Diese Arbeit studiert experimentell die distributiven und allokativen Konsequenzen verschiedener Machtbasen in wiederholten Spielen und untersucht darauffolgend die Bedeutung von Prozeduren, durch die Macht zugeteilt...