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Voluntary Participation Game Experiments with a Non-Excludable Public Good: Is Spitefulness a Source of Cooperation?.

Saijo, T.; Yamato, T.; Yokotani, K.; Cason, T.N. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 2000

Economic theory predicts that it is impossible to have cooperation in finitely repeated games such as a prisoner …'s dilemma game without communication. In an experiment on a voluntary participation game with a non-excludable public good that … is a version of a Hawk-Dove game, we obderved that evolutionary stable strategies did not appear, but cooperation emerged …

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Testing Game Theory

Weibull, Jörgen W. - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000

Experimentalists frequently claim that human subjects playing games in the laboratory violate such solution concepts as Nash equilibrium and subgame perfection. This claim is premature. What has been rejected are certain joint hypotheses about preferences, knowledge, and behavior. This note...

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Second Thoughts on Free Riding

Nielsen, Ulrik H.; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik - 2013

, confusion, or natural swiftness in responding. Our results suggest that conditional cooperation serves as a norm and that free …

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Context and Interpretation in Laboratory Experiments:The Case of Reciprocity

Levati, Maria Vittoria; Miettinen, Topi; Rai, Birendra K. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010

The existing literature acknowledges that a mismatch between the experimenter'sand the subjects' models of an experimental task can adversely aect the interpretation ofdata from laboratory experiments. We discuss why the two common experimental designs(between-subjects and within-subjects) used...

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Stereotypes and madrassas : experimental evidence from Pakistan

Delavande, Adeline; Zafar, Basit - 2011

Madrassas (Islamic religious seminaries) have been alleged to be responsible for fostering Islamic extremism and violence, and for indoctrinating their students in narrow worldviews. However, we know very little about the behavior of Madrassa students, and how other groups in their communities...

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The Coordination Value of Monetary Exchange : Experimental Evidence

Camera, Gabriele - 2011

Under what conditions can cooperation be sustained in a network of strangers? Here we study the role of institutions … and uncover a new behavioral foundation for the use of monetary systems.In an experiment, anonymous subjects could … possible, including full intertemporal cooperation supported by a social norm based on community punishment of defectors. We …

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Stereotypes and Madrassas : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

Delavande, Adeline - 2013

Little is known about the behavior of Madrassa (Islamic religious seminaries) students, how Madrassas shape their behavior, and how other groups in their communities interact with them. To investigate this, we use experimental data that we collected from students pursuing bachelors-equivalent...

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Gender Differences in Altruism on Mechanical Turk : Expectations and Actual Behaviour

Brañas-Garza, Pablo - 2018

Whether or not there are gender differences in altruistic behaviour in Dictator Game experiments has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Earlier studies found women to be more altruistic than men. However, this conclusion has been challenged by more recent accounts, which have...

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Endogenous Claims and Collective Production : An Experimental Study on the Timing of Profit-Sharing Negotiations and Production

Baranski, Andrzej - 2018

We explore the efficiency and distributive implications (theoretically and experimentally) of a multilateral bargaining model with endogenous production of the surplus under two different timings: ex ante and ex post bargaining. Both timings are commonly observed in business partnerships and...

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Cooperation, Decision Time, and Culture : Online Experiments with American and Indian Participants

Nishi, Akihiro - 2017

Two separate bodies of work have examined whether culture affects cooperation in economic games and whether cooperative … decision time and cooperation in American versus Indian subjects. We use a series of dynamic social network experiments in … cooperation among both sets of subjects. Our results imply the cultural background of subjects in their real life affects the …

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