Search Results - subject:"Conditional Cooperation"

Selfish-biased conditional cooperation: On the decline of contributions in repeated public goods experiments

Neugebauer, Tibor; Perote, Javier; Schmidt, Ulrich; … - EconWPA - 2005

The recent literature suggests that people have social preferences with a self-serving bias. Our data analysis reveals that the stylized fact of declining cooperation in repeated public goods experiments results from this bias and adaptation.

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Social learning and voluntary cooperation among like-minded people

Gächter, Simon; Thöni, Christian - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2004

Many people contribute to public goods but stop doing so once they experience free riding. We test the hypothesis that groups whose members know that they are composed only of ‘like-minded’ cooperators are able to maintain a higher cooperation level than the most cooperative,...

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Conditional cooperation and group dynamics: Experimental evidence from a sequential public goods game

Houser, Daniel; Kurzban, Robert - EconWPA - 2003

We design a novel sequential public goods experiment to study reciprocity, or conditional cooperation. In contrast to …

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An Application of the English Clock Market Mechanism to Public Goods Games

Levati, Maria Vittoria; Neugebauer, Tibor - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2001

We conducted a laboratory study with a public goods game in which contributions are not submitted all at once but incrementally as coordinated in real time by a clock. Individuals press a button as soon as the clock equals their willingness to contribute. This public goods institution exploits...

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Why do people vote for charitable donations?

Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2000

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A few can do – Ethical behavior and the provision of public goods in an agent-based model

Pickhardt, Michael - Institut für Siedlungs- und Wohnungswesen, …

interaction based on forward-looking conditional cooperation within a standard linear public goods model. Among other things, I …

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Are People Conditionally Cooperative? Evidence from a Public Goods Experiment

Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon; Fehr, Ernst - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

conditional cooperation. Our results can explain why in most repeated public goods experiments subjects initially cooperate while …

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Social Comparisons and Pro-social Behavior - Testing ‘Conditional Cooperation’ in a Field Experiment,

Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

People behave pro-socially in a wide variety of situations that standard economic theory is unable to explain. Social comparison is one explanation for such pro-social behavior: people contribute if others contribute or cooperate as well. This paper tests social comparison in a field experiment...

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Explaining Private Provision of Public Goods by Conditional Cooperation - An Evoltuionary Approach -

Levati, Maria Vittoria - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

We adopt an evolutionary approach to investigate whether and when conditional cooperation can explain the voluntary … contribution phenomenon often observed in public goods experiments and real life. Formally, conditional cooperation is captured by … evolutionary stability of conditional cooperation depends on what is known about the (individual) regret parameters of other group …

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