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Sometimes cooperation between two parties requires exactly one to cede to the other. If the decisions whether to cede … a two-player cooperation game enhances cooperation. Although subjects cede less overall with the waiting option, we show …
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simultaneous social dilemmas. The divided-loyalty hypothesis, from organizational theory, predicts that cooperation will decline as … individuals experience multiple social dilemmas with different compared to the same group members. The conditional-cooperation … hypothesis, from behavioral economics, predicts that cooperation will increase as individuals experience multiple social dilemmas …
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This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is a third party independent … implicated parties are allowed to punish each other, both the cooperation rate and the earnings are lower when the enforcement of …
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n this paper we propose a pluralistic and multi-dimensional ap- proach to cooperation. Specifically, we seek to show … that, in certain settings, less unconditional forms of cooperation may be combined with more gratuitous ones. Starting with … the prisoner’s dilemma game, the evolution of cooperation is analyzed in the presence of different strate- gies, which …
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This paper puts forward the idea that the dynamics of national innovation systems is driven by the coevolution of two main dimensions: innovative capability and absorptive capacity. The empirical analysis employs a broad set of indicators measuring national innovative capabilities and absorptive...
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Human conduct is often guided by “conformist preferences”, which thrive on behavioral expectations within a society, with conformity being the act of changing one’s behavior to match the purported beliefs of others. Despite a growing research line considering preferences for a fair outcome...
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A new mechanism that substantially mitigates social dilemmas is examined theoretically and experimentally. It resembles the voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM) except that in each decision round subjects are ranked and then grouped according to their public contribution. The game has multiple...
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The efficiency-enhancing role of the vengeance motive is illustrated in a simple social dilemma game in extensive form. Incorporating behavioral noise and observational noise in random interactions in large groups leads to seven continuous families of (short run) Perfect Bayesian equilibria...
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Endogenously chosen punishment institutions perform well in increasing contributions and long-term payoffs in social dilemma situations. However, they suffer from (a) initial reluctance of subjects to join the punishment institution and (b) initial efficiency losses due to frequent punishment....
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Peer-to-peer sanctions increase cooperation in multi-person social dilemmas (Fehr & Gachter (2000)), but not when … cooperation is weakened or strengthened when we allow for counterrewarding. We examine the impact of possible reciprocity in … rewarding on cooperation in a non-linear public bad game, and find that efficiency in the social dilemma is equally low as …
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