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Promoting cooperation : the distribution of reward and punishment power
Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2012
Recent work in experimental economics on the effectiveness of rewards and punishments for promoting cooperation mainly examines decentralized incentive systems where all group members can reward and/or punish one another. Many self-organizing groups and societies, however, concentrate the power...
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The ratchet effect in social dilemmas
Gallier, Carlo; Sturm, Bodo - 2020
In this paper, we investigate whether dynamic incentive schemes lead to a ratchet effect in a social dilemma. We test whether subjects strategically restrict their contribution levels at the beginning of a cumulative public goods game in order to avoid high obligations in the future and how this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012196294
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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015
schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find …
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Image versus information : changing societal norms and optimal privacy
Ali, S. Nageeb; Bénabou, Roland - 2016
"descriptive norm") what they really value (the "prescriptive norm"), thus presenting her with a tradeoff between incentives and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476544
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The provision point mechanism with reward money
Zubrickas, Robertas - 2013
We introduce reward money into the provision point mechanism with refunds. Reward money is distributed among the contributors in proportion to their contributions only when the provision point is not reached. In environments without aggregate uncertainty, the provision point is always reached in...
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On esteem-based incentives
Mazyaki, Ali; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2018
Incentives based on esteem, honor and shame are increasingly popular and easy to use due to modern surveillance … Tirole (2011) to explore the effect of esteem-based incentives and their interaction with traditional monetary incentives. We … show that esteem-based incentives can indeed lead to a loss of control by generating multiple equilibria, some of which …
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Bug-fixing and code-writing : the private provision of open source software
Bitzer, Jürgen; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2002
Open source software (OSS) is a public good. A self-interested individual would consider providing such software, if the benefits he gained from having it justified the cost of programming. Nevertheless each agent is tempted to free ride and wait for others to develop the software instead. This...
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The exploitation hypothesis in a public good economy : some extensions
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Sandler, Todd - 2016
Since Olson's (1965) The Logic of Collective Action, the exploitation hypothesis, in which the rich shoulders the provision burden of public goods for the poor, has held sway despite empirical exceptions. To address such exceptions, we establish two alternative exploitation hypotheses based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416381
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A note on public goods : non-excludability implies joint consumability
Christiaans, Thomas - 1998
While there are various definitions of public goods, the property of joint consumability has become the main or sole defining characteristic of such goods. Among the other characteristics the property of non-excludability is the one primarily discussed. While it is common in the literature to...
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Dynamic voluntary contribution to a public good : learning to be a free rider
Clemens, Christiane; Riechmann, Thomas - 2001
This paper explores the question whether boundedly rational agents learn to behave optimally when asked to voluntarily contribute to a public good. The decision process of individuals is described by an Evolutionary Algorithm. We analyze the learning process of purely and impurely altruistic...
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