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Social costs of inequality : heterogeneous endowments in public-good experiments
Keser, Claudia; Markstädter, Andreas; Schmidt, Martin B.; … - 2014
We compare voluntary contributions to the financing of a public good in a symmetric setting to those in asymmetric settings, in which four players have different, randomly allocated endowments. We observe that a weak asymmetry in the endowment distribution leads to the same contribution level as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410644
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Absolute vs. relative poverty and wealth : cooperation in the presence of between-group inequality
Levi, Eugenio; Ramalingam, Abhijit - 2023
comes from studies of within-group inequality. In an online public goods experiment, we instead examine the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500522
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Social Costs of Inequality – Heterogeneous Endowments in Public-Good Experiments
Keser, Claudia - 2014
We compare voluntary contributions to the financing of a public good in a symmetric setting to those in asymmetric settings, in which four players have different, randomly allocated endowments. We observe that a weak asymmetry in the endowment distribution leads to the same contribution level as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046354
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Growth and inequality in public good games
Gächter, Simon; Mengel, Friederike; Tsakas, Elias; … - 2014
In a novel experimental design we study public good games with dynamic interdependencies. Each agent's income at the end of a period serves as her endowment in the following period. In this setting growth and inequality arise endogenously allowing us to address new questions regarding their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409781
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Leadership in Dynamic Public Good Provision : Endogenous Growth and Inequality
Eichenseer, Michael - 2019
We explore how leadership affects a dynamic public goods game. Using an experimental setting where cooperation gains can be reinvested, our findings suggest that leadership has a positive impact on final wealth of the groups. Additionally, we also observe that leadership has a positive effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897774
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Growth and Inequality in Public Good Games
Gaechter, Simon - 2014
In a novel experimental design we study public good games with dynamic interdependencies. Each agent's income at the end of a period serves as her endowment in the following period. In this setting growth and inequality arise endogenously allowing us to address new questions regarding their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046227
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Existence and warr neutrality for matching equilibria in a public good economy : an aggregative game approach
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2009
Using the aggregative game approach as developed by Cornes and Hartley (2003, 2007) this paper analyzes the conditions under which matching mechanisms in a public good economy lead to interior matching equilibria in which all agents make strictly positive flat contributions to the public good....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923234
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Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? : evidence from the lab
Barr, Abigail; Hochleitner, Anna; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2023
the causal relationship running from inequality to instability. Specifically, we conduct a laboratory experiment. In the … experiment, two groups are interacting with each other repeatedly and have an incentive to cooperate even though cooperation … comes at the cost of inter-group inequality. In the second half of the experiment, we vary the extent of the inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444823
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Horizontal and Vertical Conflict : Experimental Evidence
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
Two types of political conflicts of interest pervade many of the world's societies. A horizontal conflict of interest arises when different constituencies support different policies, while a vertical conflict of interest emerges when those in charge of running the government acquire and retain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002429
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Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? : evidence from the lab
Barr, Abigail; Hochleitner, Anna; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2024 - [Revised version of 2023-13]
causal relationship running from inequality to social instability. We run a laboratory experiment in which two groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529307