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When is the Risk of Cooperation Worth Taking? The Prisoner’s Dilemma as a Game of Multiple Motives

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2013

modelled as a simultaneous, symmetric prisoner’s dilemma. This experiment manipulates the payoff in case both players defect …

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How do people cope with an ambiguous situation when it becomes even more ambiguous?

Eichberger, Jürgen; Oechssler, Joerg; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2012

unknown probabilities, i.e., they are ambiguity averse. In an experiment, we examine subjects’ choices when there is an …

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Insurance Demand for Disaster-Type Risks and the Separation of Attitudes Toward Risk and Ambiguity : An Experimental Study

Marielle, Brunette - 2011

This article presents the results of an experiment designed to test theoretical predictions about the impact of public … compensation programs. For example, results from our experiment confirm the prediction that the WTP for insurance is smaller under … the purchase of an insurance policy. Thirdly, we find that ambiguity, i.e., uncertainty about probability, significantly …

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Hiring a Homosexual, Taking a Risk? A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion

Baert, Stijn - 2015

this hypothesis we conduct a scenario experiment in which experimental employers make a hiring decision concerning a …

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Comparing Behavior Under Risk and Under Ambiguity in a Lifecycle Experiment

Carbone, Enrica - 2015

long horizons. We present an experiment comparing decision making under certainty, risk, and ambiguity, over a shorter …

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Exposure to Risk and Risk Aversion : A Laboratory Experiment

He, Tai-sen - 2015

-making under uncertainty and can speak to a few current policy debates …

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Peer effects in risky choices among adolescents

Lucks, Konstantin E.; Lührmann, Melanie; Winter, Joachim - 2017

This paper examines the distributional impact of increases to out-of-work transfers, increases to work-contingent transfers, and increases in higher rates of income tax over the whole of life. We find that, in contrast to what is implied by standard snapshot analyses, increases to...

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The roots of cooperation

Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021 - This version: 10 June 2021

and indirect reciprocity as well as third-party punishment – emerges earliest as an effective means to increase … cooperation in a repeated prisoner’s dilemma game. We find that third-party punishment exhibits a strikingly positive effect on … cooperation rates by doubling them in comparison to a control condition. It promotes cooperative behavior even before punishment …

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The roots of cooperation

Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021 - This version: 10 June 2021

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The roots of cooperation

Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021

and indirect reciprocity as well as third-party punishment – emerges earliest as an effective means to increase … cooperation in a repeated prisoner's dilemma game. We find that third-party punishment exhibits a strikingly positive effect on … cooperation rates by doubling them in comparison to a control condition. It promotes cooperative behavior even before punishment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550258