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The cost of noise : stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in social dilemma experiments

Salahshour, Mohammad; Oberhauser, Vincent; Smerlak, Matteo - 2021

Identifying mechanisms able to sustain costly cooperation among self-interested agents is a central problem across social and biological sciences. One possible solution is peer punishment: when agents have an opportunity to sanction defectors, classical behavioral experiments suggest that...

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Provision of a Public Good with Altruistic Overlapping Generations and Many Tribes

Karp, Larry S. - 2021

Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public goods. Equilibrium climate protection may depend more sensitively on either of these considerations, depending on the type of policy rule one examines. This conclusion is based on...

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Jump Equilibria in Public-Good Differential Games with a Single State Variable

Schumacher, J. M.; Reddy, Puduru Viswanadha; Engwerda, … - 2021

A simple sufficient condition is proved for symmetric Markov subgame perfect Nash equilibria in public …-good differential games with a single state variable. The condition admits equilibria in feedback strategies that have discontinuous … pollution control. The existence is shown of equilibria that are arbitrarily close to Pareto dominance for all initial …

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Volatility and resilience of democratic public-good provision

Gersbach, Hans; Pitsuwan, Fikri; Bolgè, Giovanni Valvassori - 2024

We examine democratic public-good provision with heterogeneous legislators. Decisions are taken by majority rule and an agenda-setter proposes a level of the public good, taxes, and subsidies. Members are heterogeneous with respect to their benefits from the public good. We find that, depending...

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Common and private signals in public goods games with a point of no return

Gueth, Werner; Levati, Maria Vittoria; Soraperra, Ivan - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia - 2015

We provide experimental evidence on behavior in a public goods game featuring a so-called point of no return, meaning that if the group’s total contribution falls below this point all payoffs are reduced. Participants receive either common or private signals about the point of no return, and...

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Members, Joiners, Free-riders, Supporters

Ansink, Erik; Withagen, Cees - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

We augment the standard cartel formation game from non-cooperative coalition theory, often applied in the context of international environmental agreements on climate change, with the possibility that singletons support coalition formation without becoming coalition members themselves. Rather,...

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The impact of burden sharing rules on the voluntary provision of public goods

Kesternich, Martin; Lange, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 105 (2014) C, pp. 107-123

We investigate how burden sharing rules impact the voluntary provision of a public good which generates heterogeneous benefits to agents. We compare different rule-based contribution schemes where agents can first suggest a minimum provision level of the public good, before the smallest common...

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Detecting motives for cooperation in public goods experiments

Yamakawa, Takafumi; Okano, Yoshitaka; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi - School of Economics and Management, Kochi University of … - 2015

This study clarifies the types of motives that are important as a source of cooperation in a linear public goods experiment. Our experimental design separates the contributions due to confusion, one-shot motives (which includes altruism, warm-glow, inequality aversion, and conditional...

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Social learning and voluntary cooperation among like-minded people

Gächter, Simon; Thöni, Christian - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2004

Many people contribute to public goods but stop doing so once they experience free riding. We test the hypothesis that groups whose members know that they are composed only of ‘like-minded’ cooperators are able to maintain a higher cooperation level than the most cooperative,...

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Leading by example in intergroup competition: An experimental approach

Weisser, Johannes - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We investigate leading by example in a public goods game in scenarios with and without intergroup competition. Leading by example is implemented via a sequential decision protocol. We examine both one-shot and repeated interaction and make use of the strategy method to characterize followers'...

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