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Replication in experimental economics : a historical and quantitative approach focused on public good game experiments
Vallois, Nicolas; Jullien, Dorian - 2018
We propose a historical perspective on replication in experimental economics focused on public good games. Our intended … replication. In terms of our object, we highlight a type of replication that we call "baseline replication", which is not present … in explicit methodological discussions, yet central in the specificity of experimental economics regarding replication in …
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Does corruption affect cooperation? A laboratory experiment
Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Mejia, Luis A. - In: Latin American Economic Review 25 (2016) 1, pp. 1-19
In this paper, we analyze the nature of cooperation in different corruption regimes. In a laboratory experiment with university students in Mexico, individuals play first a corruption game and then a public goods game. The corruption game is divided into three groups: high- and low-monitoring...
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Framing and Misperceptions in a Public Good Experiment
Fosgaard, Toke R.; Hansen, Lars Gårn; Wengström, Erik - 2011
Earlier studies have found that a substantial part of the contributions in public good games can be explained by subjects misperceiving the game's incentives. Using a large-scale public good experiment, we show that subtle changes in how the game is framed substantially affect such...
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Confusion and reinforcement learning in experimental public goods games
Bayer, Ralph-C.; Renner, Elke; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2009
We use a limited information environment to mimic the state of confusion in an experimental, repeated public goods game. The results show that reinforcement learning leads to dynamics similar to those observed in standard public goods games. However, closer inspection shows that individual decay...
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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy
Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009
Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...
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The effects of (incentivized) belief elicitation in public good experiments
Gächter, Simon (contributor); Renner, Elke (contributor) - 2006
We investigate the impact of eliciting beliefs about the average contribution of other group members in finitely repeated public goods experiments. We find that belief accuracy is significantly higher when beliefs are incentivized. The distribution of beliefs as well as the relationship between...
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A note on the design of experiments involving public goods
Graves, Philip E. - 2010
Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...
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The effects of (incentivized) belief elicitation in public goods experiments
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2010
Belief elicitation is an important methodological issue for experimental economists. There are two generic questions: 1) Do incentives increase belief accuracy? 2) Are there interaction effects of beliefs and decisions? We investigate these questions in the case of finitely repeated public goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003990218
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Pareto meets Olson : a note on Pareto-optimality and group size in linear public goods games
Pickhardt, Michael - 2011
In this paper I examine the relationship between Pareto-optimality and group size in linear public goods games or experiments. In particular, I use the standard setting of homogeneous linear public goods experiments and apply a recently developed tool to identify all Pareto-optimal allocations...
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Pareto-optimality in linear public goods games
Hokamp, Sascha; Pickhardt, Michael - 2011
We derive a generalized method for calculating the total number of Paretooptimal allocations (NOPA) in typical linear public goods games. Among other things, the method allows researchers to develop new experimental designs for testing the relevance of Pareto-optimality in experimental settings,...
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