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To tender or not to tender? : deliberate and exogenous sunk costs in a public good game
Heine, Florian; Sefton, Martin - In: Games 9 (2018) 3/41, pp. 1-28
In an experimental study, we compare individual willingness to cooperate in a public good game after an initial team contest phase. While players in the treatment setup make a conscious decision on how much to invest in the contest, this decision is exogenously imposed on players in the control...
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Privately contributing to public goods over time : an experimental study
Güth, Werner; Levati, Maria Vittoria; Stiehler, Andreas - 2002
Similar to Levati and Neugebauer (2001), a clock is used by which participants can vary their individual contributions for voluntarily providing a public good. As time goes by, participants either in(de)crease their contribution gradually or keep it constant. Groups of two poorly and two richly...
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Identification of individuals and groups in a public goods experiment
Christens, Sven; Dannenberg, Astrid; Sachs, Florian - 2017
, we only find a small and temporary effect of identification, irrespective of the type of communication. The reason for …
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Computer-Mediated Communication and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas : An Experimental Analysis
Bicchieri, Cristina; Lev-On, Azi - 2014
-to-face (FtF) communication on cooperation. The FtF "communication effect" has been recently explained in terms of a "focus theory … of norms": successful communication focuses agents on pro-social norms, and induces preferences and expectations … conducive to cooperation. Many of the studies that point to a communication effect, however, do not further explore whether and …
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Minority vs. majority : an experimental study of standardized bids
Pintér, Agnes (contributor); Veszteg, Robert F. (contributor) - 2008
Due to its simplicity the plurality voting system is frequently used to choose a common representative or project. Nevertheless it may fail to provide a socially efficient decision as a majority can outvote any minority even if the majority’s gain does not compensate the loss suffered by the...
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It's Your Turn : Experiments with Three-Player Public Good Games
Riyanto, Yohanes E. - 2017
repeated threshold public good games without communication. Individuals can each make a discrete contribution. If the number of …
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Alternative Rebate Rules in Enhancing Large-Group Threshold Public Goods Provision : Experimental Investigation Via Belief and Conditional Strategy
Li, Zhi; Wang, Yun; Yan, Jubo - 2022
Using rebate rules to facilitate public goods provision has become a common practice for many social, economic, and environmental issues. This paper explores the effect of both non-endogenous and endogenous rebate rules on threshold-public goods provision in large groups. We follow the...
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Auctioning Public Goods to Groups of Agents
Alboth, Dirk; Lerner, Anat; Shalev, Jonathan - 1998
A profit-maximizing auctioneer can provide a public good to at most one of a number of groups of agents. The groups may have non-empty intersections. Each group member has a private value for the good being provided to each group, which is not commonly known. We investigate an auction mechanism...
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After You - Endogenous Sequencing in Voluntary Contribution Games
Potters, Johannes (Jan) J. M.; Sefton, Martin; … - 2004
We examine contributions to a public good when some donors do not know the true value of the good. If donors in such an environment determine the sequence of moves, two contribution orders may arise as equilibria. Either the uninformed and informed donors contribute simultaneously or the...
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Leadership by Example and by Pre-Game Communication in Social Dilemma Situations
Pogrebna, Ganna; Krantz, David; Schade, Christian; … - 2009
This paper compares the effects of two leadership styles: leading by pre-game communication and leading by example … using an iterated voluntary contribution game. We find that pre-game communication increases the level of individual …-game communication. We also find that the content of pre-game communication has a higher impact on individual decisions than the ex post …
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