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Group Polarization in the Team Dictator Game reconsidered

Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Kocher, Martin G.; Sutter, Matthias - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest …

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Strategic sophistication of individuals and teams. Experimental evidence

Sutter, Matthias; Czermak, Simon; Feri, Francesco - In: European Economic Review 64 (2013) C, pp. 395-410

Many important decisions require strategic sophistication. We examine experimentally whether teams act more strategically than individuals. We let individuals and teams make choices in simple games, and also elicit first- and second-order beliefs. We find that teams play the Nash equilibrium...

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Provision of Multilevel Public Goods through Positive Externalities: Experimental Evidence

Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The provision of public goods regularly embodies interrelated spheres of influence on multiple scales. This article examines the nature of human behavior in a multilevel social dilemma game with positive provision externalities to local and global scales. We report experimental results showing...

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Communication in intergroup conflicts

Leibbrandt, Andreas; Sääksvuori, Lauri - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 6, pp. 1136-1147

Numerous studies suggest that communication may be a universal means to mitigate collective action problems. In this study, we challenge this view and show that the communication structure crucially determines whether communication mitigates or intensifies rent-seeking for pure public goods. We...

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Gun for hire: Delegated enforcement and peer punishment in public goods provision

Andreoni, James; Gee, Laura K. - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 11, pp. 1036-1046

This paper compares two methods to encourage socially optimal provision of a public good. We compare the efficacy of vigilante justice, as represented by peer-to-peer punishment, to delegated policing, as represented by the “hired gun” mechanism, to deter free riding and improve group...

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On the Effects of Group Identity in Strategic Environments

Le Coq, Chloe; Tremewan, James; Wagner, Alexander K. - The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics and … - 2013

We examine differences in behavior between subjects interacting with a member of either the same or different identity group in both a centipede game and a series of stag hunt games. We find evidence that subjects interacting with outgroup members are more likely to behave as though...

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Tournaments for the endogenous allocating of prizes within workteams - Theory and experimental evidence

Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

proposer rotates in the order of members' efforts. We show in an experiment that tournaments elicit higher efforts than random …

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When a precedent of donation favors defection in the Prisoner's dilemma

Garapin, A.; Llerena, D.; Hollard, M. - Laboratoire d'Économie Appliquée de Grenoble, … - 2010

repeated one shot prisoner's dilemma (PD) game. We conduct two series of experiments. The first consists of control experiments … of experiments, subjects first play a donation game and then the PD game. In the donation game they collectively discuss … levels in the PD games preceded by the donation game are signficantly lower than those observed in the control experiment. …

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Experimental evidence of the importance of gender pairing in bargaining

Sutter, Matthias; Bosman, Ronald; Kocher, Martin; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2003

We study the influence of gender on economic decision making in a two-person bargaining game. By testing hypotheses derived from evolutionary psychology and social role theory, we find that (1) gender per se has no significant effect on behavior, whereas (2) gender pairing systematically affects...

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Individual or team decision-making - Causes and consequences of self-selection

Kocher, Martin; Strauß, Sabine; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

Even though decision-making in small teams is pervasive in business and in private life, little is known about subjects' preferences with respect to individual and team decision-making and about the consequences of respecting these preferences. We report the results from an experimental...

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