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Embracing morals in economics: The role of internal moral constraints in a market economy

Stringham, Edward Peter - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 78 (2011) 1, pp. 98-109

constraints can help strengthen cooperation in the short and long run. …

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Leading by words: A voluntary contribution experiment with one-way communication

Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria; Weisser, … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 379-390

commonly accepted wisdom that the cooperation-enhancing effect of communication requires the mutual exchange of promises, we …

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Behavioral spillovers in coordination games

Cason, Timothy N.; Savikhin, Anya C.; Sheremeta, Roman M. - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 2, pp. 233-245

Motivated by problems of coordination failure observed in weak-link games, we experimentally investigate behavioral spillovers for minimum- and median-effort coordination games. Subjects play these coordination games simultaneously and sequentially. The results show that successful coordination...

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From locality to continent: A comment on the generalization of an experimental study

Kamei, Kenju - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 2, pp. 207-210

Kocher et al. (2008) find that conditional willingness to contribute to a public good is considerably stronger at a U.S. research site, Appalachian State University, than at sites in Europe and Asia. I find that the willingness at Brown University, in Rhode Island, is not significantly different...

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Men among men do not take norm enforcement seriously

Boschini, Anne; Muren, Astri; Persson, Mats - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 40 (2011) 5, pp. 523-529

While there is ample evidence of a society-wide cooperation norm, it is not as clear who upholds this norm. In the … is context-dependent: men acting among other men are less inclined to uphold a cooperation norm than are women, or men in …

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Punish in public

Xiao, Erte; Houser, Daniel - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 7, pp. 1006-1017

We report data from public goods games showing that privately-implemented punishment reduces cooperation in relation to … a baseline treatment without punishment. When that same incentive is implemented publicly, however, cooperation is … this increased cooperation is not attributable to shame, differences in information or signaling. Rather, our evidence is …

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Evolutionary Stability of Kantian Optimization

Curry, Philip A.; Roemer, John E. - In: Hacienda Pública Española 200 (2012) 1, pp. 131-146

In nash equilibrium, agents are autarchic in their optimization protocol, whereas in Kantian equilibrium,they optimize in an interdependent way. Typically, researchers into the evolution of homo economicus treat preferences as being determined by selective adaptation, but hold fixed the...

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A field study on cooperativeness and impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons

Fehr, Ernst; Leibbrandt, Andreas - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 9, pp. 1144-1155

This paper examines the role of cooperativeness and impatience in the exploitation of common pool resources (CPRs) by combining laboratory experiments with field data. We study fishermen whose main, and often only, source of income stems from the use of fishing grounds with open access. The...

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One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Build Coordination?

Ye, Maoliang; Asher, Sam; Casaburi, Lorenzo; Nikolov, Plamen - The Field Experiments Website - 2010

reinforcement learning, conditional cooperation, inertia, preference for consistency, and limited attention. Our findings point to a …

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Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting

Bateson, M.; Nettle, D.; Roberts, G. - The Field Experiments Website - 2006

We examined the effect of an image of a pair of eyes on contributions to an honesty box used to collect money for drinks in a university coffee room. People paid nearly three times as much for their drinks when eyes were displayed rather than a control image. This ï¬nding provides the ï¬rst...

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