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Ostracism and theft in heterogeneous groups
Baier, Alexandra; Balafoutas, Loukas; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek - 2021 - This version: 22.06.2021
behavior and the functioning of a social group. We present data from a laboratory experiment, in which participants face a … social dilemma on how to allocate limited resources between a productive activity and theft, and are given the opportunity to … form of punishment and decreases theft by excluded members once they are re-admitted into the group. However, it also leads …
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Ostracism and theft in heterogeneous groups
Baier, Alexandra; Balafoutas, Loukas; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek - In: Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic … 26 (2023) 1, pp. 193-222
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The tragedy of corruption
Chen, Yefeng; Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016
We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the public officials is introduced when the number of officials accepting a bribe from firms reaches a certain threshold. We show that, despite the social risk, the pursuit of...
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Sharing as risk pooling in a social dilemma experiment
Cherry, Todd L.; Howe, E. Lance; Murphy, James J. - 2015
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Observed punishment spillover effects : a laboratory investigation of behavior in a social dilemma
Dickinson, David L.; Dutcher, E. Glenn; Rodet, Cortney S. - In: Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic … 18 (2015) 1, pp. 136-153
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Carbon is forever : a climate change experiment on cooperation
Calzolari, Giacomo; Casari, Marco; Ghidoni, Riccardo - 2016
Greenhouse gases generate impacts that can last longer than human civilization itself. Such persistence may affect the behavioral ability to cooperate. Here we study mitigation efforts within a framework that reflects key features of climate change and then contrasts a dynamic versus a static...
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What are the equilibria in public-good experiments?
Wolff, Irenaeus - In: Economics letters 150 (2017), pp. 83-85
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Institutional choice and cooperation in representative democracies : an experimental approach
Schories, Fanny E. - 2017
This paper examines whether an institution has a differing impa ct on cooperation if it is introduced by a representative of the affected partie s rather than exogenously imposed. The experimental design is able to control for selec tion effects arising from the democratic policy choice. I find...
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In broad daylight : fuller information and higher-order punishment opportunities can promote cooperation
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 120 (2015), pp. 145-159
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Cooperating over losses and competing over gains : a social dilemma experiment
Ispano, Alessandro; Schwardmann, Peter - 2016
Evidence from studies in international relations, the politics of reform, collective action and price competition suggests that economic agents in social dilemma situations cooperate more to avoid losses than in the pursuit of gains. To test whether the prospect of losses can induce cooperation,...
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