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Public statements of good conduct promote pro-social behavior

Koessler, Ann-Kathrin; Page, Lionel; Dulleck, Uwe - 2018

Voluntary and compulsory public statements of good conduct are frequently observed in the real world, such as the codes of good conduct for professionals or the requirements of academic journals to affirm that research was carried out ethically. In this study, we investigate what effect public...

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Identification of individuals and groups in a public goods experiment

Christens, Sven; Dannenberg, Astrid; Sachs, Florian - 2017

Revealing the identities of contributors has been shown to increase cooperation in public goods games. In this paper we experimentally investigate whether this finding holds true when decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. We distinguish between groups in which members can discuss...

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The intricacy of adapting to climate change : flood protection as a local public goods game

Bondarev, Anton; Hintermann, Beat; Krysiak, Frank C.; … - 2017

We study adaptation to climate change in a federalist setting. To protect themselves against an increase in flood risk, regional governments choose among adaptation measures that vary with respect to their costs, the level of protection they offer, and the presence and nature of spillovers to...

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The demand for punishment to promote cooperation among like-minded people

Bühren, Christoph; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2020

We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate irrespective of punishment and therefore have a lower demand for a costly punishment institution than groups of like-minded free riders, who are unable to cooperate without...

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Voting on the threat of exclusion in a public goods experiment

Dannenberg, Astrid; Haita-Falah, Corina; Zitzelsberger, … - 2019

Ostracism is practiced by virtually all societies around the world as a means of enforcing cooperation and excluding members who show anti-social behaviors or attitudes. In this paper, we use a public goods experiment to study whether groups choose to implement an institution that allows for the...

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On Public Good Provision Mechanisms with Dominant Strategies and Balanced Budget

Kuzmics, Christoph - 2016

agents then any such mechanism must have a threshold (or fixed cost-sharing) form, in which there is a fixed threshold for … each of the two agents such that the public good is not provided if there is an agent with a value below her threshold and … is provided if all agents' values exceed their respective threshold. When there are more than two agents, there are …

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Leadership by Example and by Pre-Game Communication in Social Dilemma Situations

Pogrebna, Ganna; Krantz, David; Schade, Christian; … - 2009

This paper compares the effects of two leadership styles: leading by pre-game communication and leading by example using an iterated voluntary contribution game. We find that pre-game communication increases the level of individual contributions in the game and has essentially the same impact on...

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Emergence of Cooperation in Public Goods Problems

Rohac, Dalibor - 2008

In this paper, we discuss several issues related to public goods problems. Unlike many Austrians, we do not think that the concept of public goods - or of collective action - is an inherently flawed idea, even though we reject the alleged welfare implications of public goods theory, as proposed...

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Norms, Conformity, and Controls

Tayler, William B.; Bloomfield, Robert J. - 2010

Research in behavioral economics suggests that in addition to their traditional incentive effects, formal control systems can influence psychological motivations. We extend this literature by demonstrating experimentally that formal controls directly influence people’s sense of what behaviors...

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A Group Public Goods Game with Position Uncertainty

Anwar, Sakib; Bruno, Jorge; SenGupta, Sonali - 2022

We model a dynamic public good contribution game, where players are (naturally) formed into groups. The groups are exogenously placed in a sequence, with limited information available to players about their groups’ position in the sequence. Contribution decisions are made by players...

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