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Heterogeneity and cooperation in privileged groups: The role of capability and valuation on public goods provision
Kolle, Felix - 2012
opportunities, heterogeneity crucially affects cooperation and coordination within groups. Compared to non-privileged groups …We experimentally investigate cooperation in privileged groups which according to Olson (1965) are groups in which at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392401
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Heterogeneity and cooperation in privileged groups : the role of capability and valuation on public goods provision
Kolle, Felix - 2012
opportunities, heterogeneity crucially affects cooperation and coordination within groups. Compared to non-privileged groups …We experimentally investigate cooperation in privileged groups which according to Olson (1965) are groups in which at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578217
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Promoting Competition or Helping Less-Endowed? An Experiment on Collective Institutional Choices under Intra-Group Inequality
Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Unequally-distributed resources, whether people’s income or competence, are ubiquitous in our real world. Whether to promote competition or to lead to a more equal environment is often in question in societies or organizations. With heterogeneous endowments, we let subjects collectively choose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113335
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Heterogeneity and Cooperation in Privileged Groups: The Role of Capability and Valuation on Public Goods Provision
Koelle, Felix - Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and … - 2012
opportunities, heterogeneity crucially affects cooperation and coordination within groups. Compared to non-privileged groups …We experimentally investigate cooperation in privileged groups which according to Olson (1965) are groups in which at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010562390
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The dynamic interplay of inequality and trust: an experimental study
Greiner, Ben; Ockenfels, Axel; Werner, Peter - 2007
We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment starting with equal endowments, but decreases over time. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264271
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Growth and Inequality in Public Good Games
Gächter, Simon; Mengel, Friederike; Tsakas, Elias; … - 2014
allowing us to address new questions regarding their interplay and effect on cooperation levels. In stark contrast to standard … public good experiments, we find that contributions are increasing over time even in the absence of punishment possibilities … repeated public good games regarding the decay of cooperation in the absence of punishment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421189
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Preferences for redistribution in the US, Italy, Norway: An experiment study
Grimalda, Gianluca; Farina, Francesco; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2018
We examine experimentally individual preferences for redistributions in the US, Italy, and Norway. Twenty-one subjects were assigned initial earnings from a discrete uniform distribution. The source of earnings was manipulated and depended either on luck or on individual relative performance in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780697
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Growth and inequality in public good games
Gächter, Simon; Mengel, Friederike; Tsakas, Elias; … - 2014
allowing us to address new questions regarding their interplay and effect on cooperation levels. In stark contrast to standard … public good experiments, we find that contributions are increasing over time even in the absence of punishment possibilities … repeated public good games regarding the decay of cooperation in the absence of punishment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409781
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Growth and Inequality in Public Good Games
Gächter, Simon; Mengel, Friederike; Tsakas, Elias; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
allowing us to address new questions regarding their interplay and effect on cooperation levels. In stark contrast to standard … public good experiments, we find that contributions are increasing over time even in the absence of punishment possibilities … repeated public good games regarding the decay of cooperation in the absence of punishment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959700
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The Dynamic Interplay of Inequality and Trust - An Experimental Study
Greiner, Ben; Ockenfels, Axel; Werner, Peter - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2007
We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, where trust increases efficiency and thus allows higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment starting with equal endowments, but decreases over time. In a treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754938