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We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...
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altruistic punishment, to antisocial punishment, and ultimately to enhanced cooperation in Turkish society. …While the public good experiment has been used to analyze cooperation among various groups in Western Europe and North …
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punishment costs. The negative effect of altruism on cooperation and material payoffs is greater the stronger is the reciprocity … embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional altruism towards other members attenuates the punishment …Some philosophers and social scientists have stressed the importance for good government of an altruistic citizenry …
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Choosing what is morally right can be based on the consequences (ends) resulting from the decision - the Consequentialist view - or on the conformity of the means involved with some overarching notion of duty - the Deontological view. Using a series of experiments, we investigate the overall...
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leads to the evolution of moral or altruistic preferences. Their central result states that Homo Hamiltonenis – a type that …
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We demonstrate how altruism can flourish in a population of nonaltruists. We assume that each individual plays a one …
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and self-interest vs. altruism. …
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and self-interest vs. altruism. …
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) coerced altruism, that is, situations where a social norm dictates how output be shared, (b) the effects of insurance markets … analyze how the equilibrium outcome depends on altruism and climate for ex ante identical individuals. We also consider (a …, and (c) the role of institutional quality. The evolutionary robustness of altruism is analyzed and we study how this …
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cooperation neither a general tendency towards stable structures nor towards stable spatial structures can be asserted. Rather … regional cooperation structures can be eroded even after a longer period of stability, as well despite continuous support of …
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