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medium sized and large groups and show that neighborhood choice indeed leads to coordination on the fully efficient …
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round of the game. Beyond improving coordination, communication increases efficiency by making subjects' play more lenient …Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in … environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well …
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This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment on network formation among heterogeneous agents. The …
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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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intermediary organizations facilitate coordination among donors and reduce such risks. To study this, we extend a threshold public …
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We explore the influence of social norms on behavior. To do so, we introduce a method for identifying norms, based on the property that social norms reflect social consensus regarding the appropriateness of different possible behaviors. We demonstrate that the norms we elicit, along with a...
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Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an … experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe …
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aggression. In this lab experiment, we find that adopting an objective attitude (Objective), through a form of emotion regulation …
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actions of bad actors. However, in many situations bad acts go undetected and unknown to others.We use a lab experiment to …
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. In our laboratory experiment, we establish the existence of a significant efficiency premium of uniform wages. However …
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