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We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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cooperation) and payoff structure on cooperative behaviour, using an experimental setting with incomplete information. A game of … cooperation (embedded in the payoff structure) tend to lower defection. Taken together, our results suggest that the subjects …
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Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This … paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme …
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We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and …. The application of sanctions activates a "virtuous emotional circle" that accompanies cooperation. Emotionally aroused … punished, and increase their subsequent level of cooperation. The outcome is an increased level of contribution that becomes …
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Cooperation among people who are not related to each other is sustained by the availability of punishment devices which … paper reports the results of an experiment investigating inequality aversion and negative emotions as possible determinants …
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Cooperation among people who are not related to each other is sustained by the availability of punishment devices which … paper reports the results of an experiment investigating inequality aversion and negative emotions as possible determinants …
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democracies, governments need to convince their populations through efficient and persuasive information campaigns. In the context …, with 175 participants, to explore what type of information can induce change in vaccination intentions at both aggregate …, and that it is information of a purely scientific nature that has the only significant positive effect on intention to …
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We study the impact of information manipulation by a principal on the agent's effort. In a context of asymmetric … information at the principal's advantage, we test experimentally the principal's willingness to bias (overestimate or under …-estimate) the information she gives to her agent on his ability in order to motivate him to exert more effort. We find that i …
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We model signalling in two-sided sequential search with heterogeneous agents and transferable utility. Search via meetings is time-consuming and thereby costly due to discounting. Search via signals is costless, so that agents can avoid almost all search costs if only the signals are truthful....
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research system of excellence. One of many reforms is to stimulate the scientific cooperation by grouping together some of the … best French higher education institutions and to promote cooperation between public research and the economic world. The … shapes: quadrangle, galleries etc. What kind of knowledge can we use from empirical examples of cooperation in the business …
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