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Reducing strategic uncertainty increases group protection in collective risk social dilemmas

Steimanis, Ivo; Struwe, Natalie; Benda, Julian; Blanco, … - 2025 - This version: February 11, 2025

Interrelated global crises - climate change, pandemics, loss of ecosystem services and biodiversity - pose risks that demand collective solutions. Uncertainty about others' behavior, coupled with the dependence on some to take collective efforts to mitigate risks for all (e.g. conservation of...

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Provision of public goods : unconditional and conditional donations from outsiders

Blanco, Esther; Haller, Tobias; Walker, James M. - 2016 - Provisional draft

The provision of public goods often benefits a larger group than those who actively provide the public good. In an experimental setting, this paper addresses institutional arrangements between subjects who can provide a public good (insiders) and subjects who benefit from the public good but...

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Experimental evidence on sharing rules and additionality in transfer payments

Blanco, Esther; Struwe, Natalie; Walker, James - 2020

This study presents experimental evidence on the effectiveness of alternative institutional arrangements designed to allow providers of public good services to be subsidized by non-providers. The decision setting is a repeated linear public good game with two groups, insiders and outsiders....

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Competition among public good providers for donor rewards

Struwe, Natalie; Blanco, Esther; Walker, James - 2021

We present experimental evidence for decision settings where public good providers compete for endogenous donations offered by outside donors. Donors receive benefits from public good provision but cannot provide the good themselves. The performance of three competition mechanisms is examined in...

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Ostracism and theft in heterogeneous groups

Baier, Alexandra; Balafoutas, Loukas; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek - 2021 - This version: 22.06.2021

Ostracism, or exclusion by peers, has been practiced since ancient times as a severe form of punishment against … behavior and the functioning of a social group. We present data from a laboratory experiment, in which participants face a … form of punishment and decreases theft by excluded members once they are re-admitted into the group. However, it also leads …

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Do groups fight more? : experimental evidence on conflict initiation

Ke, Changxia; Morath, Florian; Seelos, Sophia - 2023

present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively …, take an outside option. Keeping monetary gains expected from fighting constant across all treatments, the experiment …

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Donations to increase productivity in public good production : experimental evidence

Struwe, Natalie; Blanco, Esther; Walker, James - 2023 - This version: March 2023

This research is inspired by in-kind donations that have the capacity to increase the marginal benefit (productivity) in provision of public goods, for example by providing critical infrastructure that increases the productivity of resources utilized by local public good providers. We provide...

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Equality, equity and incentives : an experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2010 - This version: 09/16/2010

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Equality, equity and incentives : an experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2010

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The dos and don'ts of leadership in sequential public goods experiments

Rivas, María Fernanda; Sutter, Matthias - 2008

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