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One of the important topics in public choice is how people’s free-riding behavior could differ by group size in collective action dilemmas. This paper experimentally studies how the strength of third party punishment in a prisoner’s dilemma could differ by the number of third parties in a...
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to construct a formal sanction scheme in their groups, teams enact deterrent schemes by voting much more frequently than …
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This experiment investigates contests between groups. Each group has one strong player, with a higher valuation for the prize, and two weak players, with lower valuations. In contests where individual efforts are perfect substitutes, all players expend significantly higher efforts than predicted...
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help make such rules effective include the presence of informal sanctions by peers, and implementation through voting. I … after both implemented and randomly overridden voting. I find that informal sanctions strengthen the effect of formal ones …
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a multi-period game where each subject was allocated an initial point endowment, told a threshold for the group and had … different threshold, which is always stated before the players make their contributions. We found that while contributions are … similar for the increasing and decreasing threshold group types when thresholds were low, a sizeable gap opens up around the …
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on public good provision using laboratory experiments. We create two artificial social groups in the lab and we assign …
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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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We investigate the effect of intragroup competition and risky marginal per capita returns on subjects' cooperative behavior in a one-shot public good game – following the wellknown approach proposed by Fischbacher, Gächter, and Fehr (2001) and extending the Colasante et al. (2019) and...
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This paper reports 5 laboratory sessions that analyze the effects of group sizes in the voluntary contribution mechanism, when contribution level is either complementary or substitute. The theorical argument is that each production function provides different incentives for the agent along scale...
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Both peer-to-peer punishments and rewards can be effective in increasing cooperation in dilemma situations. We follow Kamei’s experimental design [2014, Economics Letters 124, pp.199-202], except we use a reward option instead of a punishment one. Consistent with Kamei (2014), decisions to...
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