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Are People Conditionally Cooperative? Evidence from a Public Goods Experiment
Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon; Fehr, Ernst - 2001
We study the importance of conditional cooperation in a one-shot public goods game by using a variant of the strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171100
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Self-enforcing Norms and the Efficient Non-cooperative Organization of Clans
Konrad, Kai A.; Leininger, Wolfgang - 2007
We study how norms can solve distributional conflict inside a clan and the efficient coordination of collective action in a conflict with an external enemy.We characterize a fully non-cooperative equilibrium in a finite game in which a self-enforcing norm coordinates the members on efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264689
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Peace and goodwill? Using an experimental game to analyse the Desarrollo y Paz initiative in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio; Pellerano, Luca; Phillips, David - 2009
Several decades of conflict, rebellion and unrest severely weakened civil society in parts of Colombia. Desarollo y Paz is the umbrella term used to describe the set of locally-led initiatives that aim at addressing this problem through initiatives to promote sustainable economic development and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275710
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Peace and goodwill? : using an experimental game to analyse the Desarrollo y Paz initiative in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Pellerano, Luca; Phillips, David - 2009
Several decades of conflict, rebellion and unrest severely weakened civil society in parts of Colombia. Desarollo y Paz is the umbrella term used to describe the set of locally-led initiatives that aim at addressing this problem through initiatives to promote sustainable economic development and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882450
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Free-Rider Problem and Sovereignty Protection
Matsushima, Hitoshi - 2022
player attempts to seek loopholes to impose the burden of cooperation on other players. The players establish a committee …’ announcements. We require the committee to protect player sovereignty in that no player is forced to carry out high cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292712
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EU demand for defense, 1990-2019 : a strategic spatial approach
George, Justin; Sandler, Todd - In: Games 12 (2021) 1/13, pp. 1-18
For 1990-2019, this study presents two-step GMM estimates of EU members' demands for defense spending based on alternative spatial-weight matrices. In particular, EU spatial connectivity is tied to EU membership status, members' contiguity, contiguity and power projection, inverse distance, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432602
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Self-Enforcing Norms and the Efficient Non-Cooperative Organization of Clans
Konrad, Kai A.; Leininger, Wolfgang - 2011
We study how norms can solve distributional conflict inside a clan and the efficient coordination of collective action in a conflict with an external enemy. We characterize a fully non-cooperative equilibrium in a finite game in which a self-enforcing norm coordinates the members on efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224386
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772221
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Social norms, endogenous sorting and the culture of cooperation
Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2018
of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect … prosocial judges (if institutionally possible), and immediately establish a social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears … to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825357
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Social norms, endogenous sorting and the culture of cooperation
Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2018
of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect … prosocial judges (if institutionally possible), and immediately establish a social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears … to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844819