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Asymmetric Enforcement of Cooperation in a Social Dilemma

Nikiforakis, Nikos - 2009

We use a public-good experiment to analyze behavior in a decentralized asymmetric punishment institution. The … institution is asymmetric in the sense that players differ in the effectiveness of their punishment. At the aggregate level, we … observe remarkable similarities between outcomes in asymmetric and symmetric punishment institutions. Controlling for the …

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Asymmetric enforcement of cooperation in a social dilemma

Nikiforakis, Nikos; Normann, Hans-Theo; Wallace, Brian - In: Southern economic journal 76 (2010) 3, pp. 638-659

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Asymmetric enforcement of cooperation in a social dilemma

Nikiforakis, Nikos; Normann, Hans-Theo; Wallace, Brian - 2009

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Asymmetric enforcement of cooperation in a social dilemma

Nikiforakis, Nikos (contributor); … - 2007

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Self-nudging vs. social nudging in social dilemmas : an experiment

Diederich, Johannes; Goeschl, Timo; Waichman, Israel - 2022

The exogenous manipulation of choice architectures to achieve social ends ('social nudges') can raise problems of effectiveness and ethicality because it favors group outcomes over individual outcomes. One answer is to give individuals control over their nudge ('self-nudge'), but the trade-offs...

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Priorities in the location of multiple public facilities

Bochet, Olivier; Gordon, Sidartha - 2008

A collective decision problem is described by a set of agents, a profile of single-peaked preferences over the real line and a number k of public facilities to be located. We consider public facilities that do not suffer from congestion and are non-excludable. We provide a characterization of...

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Risk-taking in social settings : group and peer effects

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Nieboer, Jeroen; Sefton, Martin - 2013 - Revised version of 2013-01, This version: June 6, 2013

We investigate experimentally the effect of consultation (unincentivized advice) on choices under risk in an incentivized investment task. We compare consultation to two benchmark treatments: one with isolated individual choices, and a second with group choice after communication. Our benchmark...

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Teams punish less

Auerswald, Heike; Schmidt, Carsten; Thum, Marcel; … - 2013

punishment option and compare it to the behavior of individuals in a laboratory experiment. We also consider different team …

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Does sequential decision-making trigger collective investment in automobile R&D? : experimental evidence

Buchmann, Tobias; Haering, Alexander; Kudic, Muhamed; … - 2018

We conduct a framed laboratory experiment to gain in-depth insights on factors that drive collective research and … development efforts among firms located along the automotive value chain. In particular, we employ a public goods experiment and … setzen wir ein „öffentliches Gut Experiment“ ein und analysieren den Einfluss sequentieller Entscheidungen auf die …

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Dragon Slaying with Ambiguity : Theory and Experiments

Kelsey, David - 2015

This paper studies the impact of ambiguity in the best shot and weakest link models of public good provision. The models are first analysed theoretically. Then we conduct experiments to study how ambiguity affects behaviour in these games. We test whether subjects' perception of ambiguity...

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