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Cooperation, motivation and social balance
Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452082
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Cooperation, motivation and social balance
Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness", whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414267
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Cooperation, motivation and social balance
Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431001
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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 … above minimum contribution level (symmetric cooperation). We generalize this result by showing, first, that there exist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941202
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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - 2021
We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit … individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them - as well as subjects' elicited beliefs - to explain … based on this data, we show that the decline of cooperation can be driven by the fact that most people have a preference to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316430
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Denial and alarmism in collective action problems
Förster, Manuel; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2018
information about these returns as well as their own taste for cooperation, or social preferences. Before deciding to contribute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011801387
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Estimation of the house money effect using hurdle models
Engel, Christoph; Moffat, Peter G. - 2012
Evidence from an experiment investigating the "house money effect" in the context of a public goods game is reconsidered. Analysis is performed within the framework of the panel hurdle model, in which subjects are assumed to be one of two types: free-riders, and potential contributors. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009569530
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Prizes Versus Wages with Envy and Pride
Dubey, Pradeep K. - 2011
We show that if agents are risk neutral, prizes outperform wages if and only if there is sufficient pride and envy relative to the noisiness of performance. If agents are risk averse, prizes are a necessary supplement to wages (as bonuses)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118185
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Prizes Versus Wages with Envy and Pride
Dubey, Pradeep K.; Geanakoplos, John; Haimanko, Ori - 2005
We show that if agents are risk neutral, prizes outperform wages when there is sufficient pride and envy relative to the noisiness of performance. If agents are risk averse, prizes are a necessary supplement to wages (as bonuses)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061692
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A Mechanism for Inducing Cooperation in Non-Cooperative Environments : Theory and Applications
Ellis, Christopher J.; van den Nouweland, Anne - 2013
characterize cooperation. We then argue that this mechanism is applicable to a wide range of economic questions and illustrate this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075838