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This paper considers the endogenous formation of an institution to provide a public good. If the institution governs only its members, players have an incentive to free ride on the institution formation of others and the social dilemma is simply shifted to a higher level. Addressing this...
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This paper considers the endogenous formation of an institution to provide a public good. If the institution governs only its members, players have an incentive to free ride on the institution formation of others and the social dilemma is simply shifted to a higher level. Addressing this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009490611
have positive effects on cooperation rates, compared to a treatment where no third party is involved. Third-party reward is … more effective in increasing cooperation than third-party observation. However, rewards are given too late to prevent a … steady downward trend of cooperation rates. -- social norms ; third-party reward ; third-party observation ; prisoner …
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findings document that the redistribution mechanism interrupts cooperation decay and stabilizes the share of cooperators at a …
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This paper considers the endogenous formation of an institution to provide a public good. If the institution governs only its members, players have an incentive to free ride on the institution formation of others and the social dilemma is simply shifted to a higher level. Addressing this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315935
We examine the effect of unilateral and mutual partner selection in the context of prisoner's dilemmas experimentally. Subjects play simultaneously several finitely repeated two-person prisoner's dilemma games. We find that unilateral choice is the best system. It leads to low defection and...
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According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize "greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system." The Framework Convention thus...
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cooperation is best reply to itself. We give the condition for the existence of the Ostrom threshold in the Nederlander …-Prisoner's Dilemma Game. For high enough cost of failure, cooperation among rational egoists is sustained. The Ostrom threshold first …
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& Grossman, 1998, 2001 or Andreoni and Vesterlund 2001, among others) have shown the relevance of gender in altruism in both … cooperation than male students. …
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