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Implications of inequality aversion for international climate policy

Vogt, Carsten; Sturm, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

In this paper, we extend the Fehr and Schmidt model of inequality aversion to a situation where the players differ with respect to their benefits and costs from contributions to a non-linear public good. A necessary condition for contributing to the public good is that the players' benefit...

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Use of data on planned contributions and stated beliefs in the measurement of social preferences

Conte, Anna; Levati, M. Vittoria - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In a series of one-shot linear public goods game, we ask subjects to report their contributions, their contribution plans for the next period, and their first-order beliefs about their present and future partner. We estimate subjects' preferences from plans data by a finite mixture approach and...

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How Individual Preferences are Aggregated in Groups: An Experimental Study

Ambrus, Attila; Greiner, Ben; Pathak, Parag A. - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 2014

This paper experimentally investigates how individual preferences, through unrestricted deliberation, are aggregated into a group decision in two contexts: reciprocating gifts and choosing between lotteries. In both contexts, we find that median group members have a significant impact on the...

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Unravelling conditional cooperation - Reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring in public goods provision

Cappelletti, Dominique; Güth, Werner; Ploner, Matteo - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Extensive research on human cooperation in social dilemmas has shown that individuals condition their behaviour upon the behaviour of others. However, few attempts have been made to disentangle the motivations backing conditional cooperation. We try to assess the relative importance of three...

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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 - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2012

Both in the field and in the lab, participants frequently cooperate, despite the fact that the situation can be modelled as a simultaneous, symmetric prisoner’s dilemma. This experiment manipulates the payoff in case both players defect, and explains the degree of cooperation by a combination...

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Group membership, team preferences, and expectations

Guala, Francesco; Mittone, Luigi; Ploner, Matteo - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 86 (2013) C, pp. 183-190

Group membership is a powerful determinant of social behaviour in a variety of experimental games. Its effect may be channelled primarily via the beliefs of group members, or directly change their social preferences. We report an experiment with a prisoner's dilemma with multiple actions, in...

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Social motives in intergroup conflict

Weisel, Ori; Ro'i Zultan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We experimentally test the social motives behind individual participation in intergroup conflict by manipulating the … framing and symmetry of conflict. We find that behavior in conflict depends on whether one is harmed by actions perpetrated by … mobilized to do what is good for the group and contribute to the conflict. On the other hand, if people perceive to be …

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How individual preferences get aggregated in groups - An experimental study

Ambrus, Attila; Greiner, Ben; Pathak, Parag - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 2013

This paper experimentally investigates how individual preferences, through unrestricted deliberation, get aggregated into a group decision in two contexts: reciprocating gifts, and choosing between lotteries. In both contexts we find that median group members have a significant impact on the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695949

Endogenous Timing in Pollution Control: Stackelberg versus Cournot-Nash Equilibria

Heugues, Melanie - In: Strategic Behavior and the Environment 2 (2012) 2, pp. 133-158

In the framework of international cooperation on climate change to control green-house gas emissions (GHG), this paper aims to shed new light on the eventuality of the emergence of a country (or a group of countries) behaving as a leader in the implementation of its environmental policy. The...

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Efficient International Environmental Agreements for Correlated Transnational Pollutants in the Presence of Free Trade of Goods and International Transfers

Silva, Emilson C. D.; Zhu, Xie - In: Strategic Behavior and the Environment 1 (2011) 2, pp. 175-197

We examine numerous settings in which large strategic nations make environmental policies in the presence of international trade and form coalitions that aim to mitigate global or continental transnational pollution. We show that every nation has incentives to internalize all emission...

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