Cooperation among Strangers in the Presence of Defectors: An Experimental Study

Does the rotten apple spoils his companions? This is the question we analyze in the context of a repeated population game with behavioral types. Our experimental results show that the inclusion of a non-cooperative player in an anonymous community makes cooperation much more difficult to sustain but that individuals still manage to trust some of the permanent players of society. The rotten apple lowers the quality of the companions, but is not able to completely spoil them.

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Year of publication:	2013-11
Authors:	Moscoso Boedo, Luciana Cecilia ; Quesada, Lucia ; Tarazona, Marcela
Institutions:	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
Subject:	Population games \| anonymous random matching \| social norms

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number DTE 567 29 pages
Classification:	C71 - Cooperative Games ; C93 - Field Experiments
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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