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Anger management : aggression and punishment in the provision of public goods

Gee, Laura K.; Lyu, Xinxin; Urry, Heather - In: Games 8 (2017) 1, pp. 1-28

The ability to punish free-riders can increase the provision of public goods. However, sometimes, the benefit of increased public good provision is outweighed by the costs of punishments. One reason a group may punish to the point that net welfare is reduced is that punishment can express anger...

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Dynamic contributions to a public project : the impact of rising marginal benefit and completion benefits

Baker, Ronald J.; Halloran, Matthew - In: Games 9 (2018) 3/43, pp. 1-19

contributions and condition additional contributions on the cooperation of others. This study presents results from experiments in …. Results reveal that when the multiple threshold design is combined with a completion benefit, overall contributions and … the multiple threshold design are not significantly different from a constant marginal benefit design. In addition …

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Framing and feedback in social dilemmas with partners and strangers

Cox, Caleb A.; Stoddard, Brock - In: Games 6 (2015) 4, pp. 394-412

We study framing effects in repeated social dilemmas by comparing payoff-equivalent Give- and Take-framed public goods games under varying matching mechanisms (Partners or Strangers) and levels of feedback (Aggregate or Individual). In the Give-framed game, players contribute to a public good,...

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Elections under biased candidate endorsements : an experimental study

Sun, Junze; Schram, Arthur; Sloof, Randolph - In: Games and economic behavior 125 (2021), pp. 141-158

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Information aggregation in Poisson elections

Ekmekci, Mehmet; Lauermann, Stephan - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 17 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23

The modern Condorcet jury theorem states that under weak conditions, when voters have common interests, elections will aggregate information when the population is large, in any equilibrium. Here, we study the performance of large elections with population uncertainty. We find that the modern...

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Does renewable energy help increase life expectancy? : insight from the linking renewable energy, economic growth, and life expectancy in 121 countries

Wang, Qiang; Wang, Lili; Li, Rongrong - In: Energy strategy reviews 50 (2023), pp. 1-11

-effect model and non-linear panel threshold model. Both the fixed-effect model and the threshold model results show a positive … relationship between renewable energy consumption and life expectancy. Renewable energy consumption has a double threshold effect …

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Gender differences in risk attitudes : belief in the existence of gender differences in risk attitudes is stronger than the evidence supporting it

Filippin, Antonio - 2016

Many experimental studies and surveys have shown that women consistently display more risk-averse behavior than men when confronted with decisions involving risk. These differences in risk preferences, when combined with gender differences in other behavioral traits, such as fondness for...

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Moral entitlements and aspiration formation in asymmetric bargaining : experimental evidence from Germany and China

Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Walkowitz, Gari - In: Games 8 (2017) 4, pp. 1-25

Using a unique experimental data set, we investigate how asymmetric legal rights shape bargainers’ aspiration levels through moral entitlements derived from equity norms and number prominence. Aspiration formation is typically hard to observe in real life. Our study involves 15 negotiations...

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Prescriptive norms and social comparisons

Michaeli, Moti; Spiro, Daniel - In: Games 9 (2018) 4/97, pp. 1-12

This paper analyzes the equilibrium strength of prescriptive norms to contribute to public goods. We consider three methods of establishing what an acceptable contribution to the public good is. Under the first method, the contribution of the bottom contributor is the reference point by which...

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Thankful or thankless : does the past's altruism increase the present's public good contributions?

Abatayo, Anna Lou; Svenningsen, Lea Skræp; Thorsen, Bo … - In: Games 11 (2020) 1/6, pp. 1-29

running simultaneous intercountry laboratory experiments using a modified public goods game in Denmark, Spain and Ghana. While …

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