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Public goods and decay in networks
Fatas, Enrique; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A.; Morales, … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 1, pp. 73-90
contributions assuming imperfect conditional cooperation by others, and that they have some degree of bounded rationality. We show …
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Civic engagement as a second-order public good : the cooperative underpinnings of the accountable state
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G.; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2019
taxation. In addition, we find that local social interaction among subgroups of participants also boosts cooperation. …
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The choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems : a survey of experimental research
Dannenberg, Astrid; Gallier, Carlo - 2019
A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010446
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The choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems : a survey of experimental research
Dannenberg, Astrid; Gallier, Carlo - 2019
A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010646
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Absolute vs. relative poverty and wealth : cooperation in the presence of between-group inequality
Levi, Eugenio; Ramalingam, Abhijit - 2023
While inequality in resource endowments has been shown to affect cooperation levels in groups, much of this evidence … payoff-irrelevant inequality in resources between groups on cooperation within equal groups. When all groups are poor or rich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500522
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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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Conditional Cooperation and Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods
Keser, Claudia; van Winden, Frans A.A.M. - 2000
, contributions show a continual decay, while in the partnerscondition, contributions fluctuate on ahigh level until they decrease in …
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The Importance of Emotions for the Effectiveness of Social Punishment
Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - 2005
This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325579
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Heterogeneity and cooperation in privileged groups : the role of capability and valuation on public goods provision
Kolle, Felix - 2012
We experimentally investigate cooperation in privileged groups which according to Olson (1965) are groups in which at … opportunities, heterogeneity crucially affects cooperation and coordination within groups. Compared to non-privileged groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578217
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Conditional cooperation and voluntary contributions to public goods
Keser, Claudia; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2000
, contributions show a continual decay, while in the partnerscondition, contributions fluctuate on ahigh level until they decrease in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303327