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Self-Enforcing Strategies to Deter Free-Riding in the Climate Change Mitigation Game and Other Repeated Public Good Games

Heitzig, Jobst; Lessmann, Kai; Zou, Yong - 2011

renegotiate agreements in case of noncompliance, and the same is true for other so-called “public good games.” Using game theory …

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Following social norms, signaling, and cooperation in the public goods game

Cui, Chi; Dai, Ming; Schwieren, Christiane - 2024

In this paper, we experimentally investigate how sending a signal of following social norms impacts people's cooperative behavior in a repeated public goods game, where we disentangle the effect of strategy and internalization of social norms on cooperation. We find that under the signaling...

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Coordinating to protect the global climate : experimental evidence on the role of inequality and commitment

Tavoni, Alessandro; Dannenberg, Astrid; Löschel, Andreas - 2010

Free riding and coordination difficulties are held to be the primary causes of cooperation breakdown among nonrelatives …. Given the empirical nature of the problem, we address it by means of a controlled laboratory experiment: a framed threshold … public goods game is used to investigate the degree of cooperation and coordination achieved by groups of six participants in …

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Reaching for the stars : an experimental study of the consumption value of social approval

Greiff, Matthias; Paetzel, Fabian - 2012

subjects have a preference for social approval. Using a controlled laboratory experiment we test our model. In the experiment …

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Does expressing disapproval influence future cooperation? : an experimental study

Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria - 2014

We report on an experiment designed to explore whether a written expression of disapproval affects future levels of …

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Ignorance, intention and stochastic outcomes

Friedrichsen, Jana; Momsen, Katharina; Piasenti, Stefano - 2020

Intentions play a fundamental role in many situations characterized by nonsimultaneous interaction from principal-agent settings in firms to the international task of protecting the environment and the climate. We experimentally investigate how decision makers (DMs) respond to perceived...

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Distributional preferences explain individual behavior across games and time

Hedegaard, Morten; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Müller, Daniel; … - 2019

We use a large and heterogeneous sample of the Danish population to investigate the importance of distributional preferences for behavior in a public good game and a trust game. We find robust evidence for the significant explanatory power of distributional preferences. In fact, compared to...

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Letting off steam! : experimental evidence on inappropriate punishment

Khachatryan, Elina; Bühren, Christoph - 2020

Aggression is displaced when provocations cannot be directly retaliated against and when it is redirected towards a target innocent of any wrongdoing. While this phenomenon is widespread, it has not been widely explored in experimental economics. We fill this gap and find that a sizeable...

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Ignorance, intention and stochastic outcomes

Friedrichsen, Jana; Momsen, Katharina; Piasenti, Stefano - 2021

room for the second mover when deciding on a reciprocating action. We employ a controlled experiment to investigate how …

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Constrained public goods in networks

Allouch, Nizar; King, Maia - 2018

This paper analyses the private provision of public goods where agents interact within a fixed network structure and may benefit only from their direct neighbours' provisions. We survey the literature and then generalise the public goods in networks model of Bramoullé and Kranton (2007) to...

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