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(i) risk best explains the variation in cooperation rates across random matching ("stranger'') and one-shot treatments … cooperation in partner than stranger if and only if risk is high and temptation low and (v) women are more cooperative than the … understand which dimension of the dilemma (risk or temptation) is best targeted via interventions to yield improved cooperation …
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We present a natural environment that sustains full cooperation in one-shot social dilemmas among a finite number of … emerge in equilibrium. The same environment leads to full cooperation in the prisoners' dilemma …
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find support for risk dominance of TFT as a determinant of cooperation. This comment introduces the "Payback" strategy … explain the observed cooperation patterns. …
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We study the effect of environmental risk on cooperation in the Voluntary Contribution Mechanism. Our baseline is the … this happens independently for each group member. Our main result is that risk does not harm cooperation either in the one … robust and conservative measure of human cooperation …
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We consider dynamic team production in the presence of uncertainty. Team members receive interim feedback that depends on both their current effort level and the project's uncertain prospects. In this environment, each member can encourage the others by making them more optimistic about the...
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We consider dynamic team production in the presence of uncertainty. Team members receive interim feedback that depends on both their current effort level and the project's uncertain prospects. In this environment, each member can encourage the others by making them more optimistic about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308721
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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We examine the effect of payoff variations on cooperation in one-shot prisoner's dilemma games. We focus on three … impact on cooperation. Temptation directly deters cooperation and indirectly harms cooperation by lowering beliefs about the … opponent's cooperativeness. Efficiency indirectly affects cooperation through beliefs, but the magnitude of the effect is …
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I investigate the existence of epistemic models for complete information games that satisfy the following properties: (R) players do not rule out their opponents use rational ex ante strategies for deriving their choices, (K) they do not rule out, ex ante, that they can come to know the action...
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I investigate the decision problem of a player in a game of incomplete information who faces uncertainty about the other players' strategies. I propose a new decision criterion which works in two steps. First, I assume common knowledge of rationality and eliminate all strategies which are not...
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