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cooperation and are consistent with motivations for voluntary contributions of reciprocity and conformity. We also find that there …
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experimentprompted by Weimann's (1994) result, from adeceptive design, that subjects are more sensitive to free-ridingthan cooperation on …
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The expectation that non-cooperators will be punished can help to sustain cooperation, but there are competing claims … undermine cooperation in social dilemmas. Varying treatments of a voluntary contributions experiment, we find that availability … of higher-order punishment opportunities increases cooperation and efficiency when subjects have full information on the …
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experimentprompted by Weimann's (1994) result, from adeceptive design, that subjects are more sensitive to free-ridingthan cooperation on …
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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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This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...
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The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...
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Economic theory has invoked moral motivation as an explanation for the voluntary provision of public goods but is vague with regard to the specific moral concerns involved. Using climate change as a case study, this paper relates morally-motivated public good provision to the six moral...
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interaction based on forward-looking conditional cooperation within a standard linear public goods model. Among other things, I … motivated types in the population is rather small. -- Linear Public Goods Games ; Conditional Cooperation ; Ethical Behavior …
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