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Social preferences under risk : ex-post fairness vs. efficiency

Gaudeul, Alexia - 2015

Social lotteries are lotteries that are played along with someone else. The experimental literature indicates that risk attitudes depend on how one’s situation in the safe alternative compares to that of a peer. Evaluation of the risky alternative also depends on whether the lottery gives...

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Gossip and the efficiency of interactions

Fehr, Dietmar; Sutter, Matthias - 2016

Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …

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Gossip and the efficiency of interactions

Fehr, Dietmar; Sutter, Matthias - 2016

Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420430

Risk, temptation, and efficiency in prisoner's dilemmas

Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, Martin - 2020

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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The role of payoff parameters for cooperation in the one-shot prisoner's dilemma

Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, Martin; Weber, … - 2024

's material payoff structure affects cooperation is incomplete. In this paper we investigate the effect of variation in material … payoffs on cooperation, focusing on one-shot PD games where efficiency requires mutual cooperation. We report results from … our experiments and the complementary analyses is that cooperation in a PD increases with the gains of mutual cooperation …

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Agreeing on efficient emissions reduction

Bos, Olivier; Roussillon, Béatrice; Schweinzer, Paul - 2013

We propose a simple mechanism providing incentives to reduce harmful emissions to their efficient level without infracting upon productive efficiency. The mechanism employs a contest creating incentives among participating nations to simultaneously exert efficient productive and efficient...

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When is the risk of cooperation worth taking? : the prisoner's dilemma as a game of multiple motives

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2012 - revised version: August 2013

, and explains the degree of cooperation by a combination of five motives: the size of gains from cooperation, expectations …

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Efficiency versus equality in bargaining

Galeotti, Fabio; Montero, Maria; Poulsen, Anders - 2015

We report experimental data from bargaining situations where bargainers can make proposals as often and whenever they want, and can communicate via written messages. We vary the set of feasible contracts, thereby allowing us to assess the focality of three properties of bargaining outcomes:...

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Efficiency versus equality in bargaining

Galeotti, Fabio; Montero, María; Poulsen, Anders - 2015

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Inefficiency in private value bargaining with naive players : an experimental study

Possajennikov, Alexandre; Saran, Rene - 2018

experiment participants, and that allowing face-to-face pre-play communication increases efficiency although still not to the …

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