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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337734
This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation …
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This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in … method. It is found that the selfish bias in conditional cooperation is made significantly worse when other players …. -- conditional cooperation ; selfish bias ; punishment ; public good experiment ; strategy method …
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Extensive research on human cooperation in social dilemmas has shown that individuals condition their behaviour upon … cooperation. We try to assess the relative importance of three motives - namely reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring - in … games, overall we find much less conditional cooperation. In a control treatment with a less complex design, conditional …
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We investigate experimentally whether the extent of conditional cooperation in public good games depends on the … conditional cooperation. We also find no evidence that the type of game makes a difference to unconditional contributions. The …
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In this experiment, we endogenize the choice of which contribution scheme is implemented in a public goods game. We investigate three rule-based contribution schemes. In a first step, players agree on a common group provision level using the principle of the smallest common denominator....
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We investigate experimentally whether the extent of conditional cooperation in public good games depends on the … leads and three follow. Even though we observe less conditional cooperation for an MPCR of 0.2, the prevalence of … conditional cooperation remains relatively stable to changes in the MPCR and game timing. In contrast, the level of MPCR has a …
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This paper provides a new way to identify conditional cooperation in a real-time version of the standard voluntary … behavior. Moreover, notwithstanding a decline in contributions, conditional cooperation is found to be stable over time …. -- Public goods game ; Real-time protocol ; Information feedback ; Conditional cooperation ; Simulations …
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This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117607