There are many contexts where an "everybody else is doing it" attitude is relevant. We evaluate the impact of this attitude in a multi-threshold public goods game. We use a lab experiment to study the role of providing information about contribution behavior to targeted subsets of individuals,...

In contrast to industries of other types of information goods, the video game industry still has a sizable secondhand market for games. This is particularly notable since some of the major gaming-console companies (e.g., Sony and Microsoft) actually possess the ability to annihilate the...