Volk, Stefan; Thöni, Christian; Ruigrok, Winfried - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 664-676
A core element of economic theory is the assumption of stable preferences. We test this assumption in public goods games by repeatedly eliciting cooperation preferences in a fixed subject pool over a period of five months. We find that cooperation preferences are very stable at the aggregate...