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Conditional cooperation in group contests

Kiss, Hubert János; Rosa-Garcia, Alfonso; Zhukova, Vita - 2020

In this paper we show experimentally that conditional cooperation, a phenomenon described in the private provision of … determines if they overcome a rival group. This environment allows us to identify new determinants of conditional cooperation. We … observe conditional cooperation in successful groups and in groups where members contribute more than rivals (even if they …

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Fear of being left alone drives inefficient exit from partnerships : an experiment

Crosetto, Paolo; Gaudeul, Alexia; Riener, Gerhard - 2014

We explore in an experiment what leads to the breakdown of partnerships. Subjects are assigned a partner and participate in a repeated public good game with stochastic outcomes. They can choose each period between staying in the public project or working on their own. There is excessive exit as...

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Group contests with internal conflict and power asymmetry

Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 118 (2016) 4, pp. 816-840

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Contests within and between groups

Bhattacharya, Puja; Rampal, Jeevant - 2019

This paper examines behavior (the oretically and experimentally) in a two-stage group contest where the fi rst stage comprises of intra - group contests, followed by an inter-group contest in the second stage. Rewards accrue only to the members of the winning group in the inter-group contest,...

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Simultaneous inter- and intra-group conflicts

Münster, Johannes - 2004

Lecture on the first SFB/TR 15 meeting, Gummersbach, July, 18 - 20, 2004: This paper models the trade-off between production and appropriation in the presence of simultaneous inter- and intra-group conflicts. The model exhibits a ' group cohesion effect ': if the contest between the groups...

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Cooperation in small groups : the effect of group size

Nosenzo, Daniele; Quercia, Simone; Sefton, Martin - 2013 - Revised version of 2012-17, This version: 29 July 2013

We study the effect of group size on cooperation in voluntary contribution mechanism games. As in previous experiments … find that cooperation is highest of all in twoperson groups. The findings in the high MPCR condition are consistent with … those from n-person prisoner's dilemma and oligopoly experiments that suggest it is more difficult to sustain cooperation in …

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