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When In Rome: Conformity and the Provision of Public Goods

Carpenter, Jeffrey - 2002

We ask whether conformity, copying the most observed behavior in a population, can affect free riding in a public goods … situation. Our model suggests that, if free riding is sufficiently frequent at the start of a public goods game, conformity will …. Further, conformity is significantly stronger when players have more information about the choices of others. …

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The provision of public goods with positive group interdependencies

Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2010

This article examines the nature of human behavior in a nested social dilemma referred to as the Spillover Game. Players are divided into two groups with positive production interdependencies. Based on theoretically derived opportunistic, local, and global optima, our experimental results...

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Coordination under threshold uncertainty in a public goods game

Dannenberg, Astrid; Löschel, Andreas; Paolacci, Gabriele; … - 2011

We explored experimentally how threshold uncertainty affects coordination success in a threshold public goods game. Whereas all groups succeeded in providing the public good when the exact value of the threshold was known, uncertainty was generally detrimental for the public good provision. The...

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Social Framing Effects in Leadership: Preferences or Beliefs?

Cartwright, Edward; Drouvelis, Michalis - 2020

We experimentally study the impact of framing effects in a repeated sequential social dilemma game. Our between-subjects design consists of two group level ("Wall Street" vs. "Community") and two individual level ("First (Second) Movers" vs. "Leaders (Followers)") frames. We find that average...

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Teams contribute more and punish less

Auerswald, Heike; Schmidt, Carsten; Thum, Marcel; … - 2016

Challenges in global politics like climate change, maritime piracy and fighting highly contagious diseases concern global public goods. The related policy decisions are mostly made by teams. In contrast, economic models of global public goods typically assume a single rational decision-maker. We...

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Tipping versus Cooperating to Supply a Public Good

Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2015

In some important multi-player situations, such as efforts to supply a global public good, players can choose the game they want to play. In this paper we conduct an experimental test of the decision to choose between a tipping game, in which every player wants to contribute to the public good...

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Efficiency in a forced contribution threshold public good game

Cartwright, Edward; Stepanova, Anna - 2015

We contrast and compare three ways of predicting efficiency in a forced contribution threshold public good game. The three alternatives are based on ordinal potential, quantal response and impulse balance theory. We report an experiment designed to test the respective predictions and find that...

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On the performance of rule-based contribution schemes under endowment heterogeneity

Kesternich, Martin; Lange, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo - 2014

We experimentally test different rule-based contribution mechanisms in a repeated 4-player public goods game with endowment heterogeneity and compare them to a VCM, distinguishing between a random- and an effort-based allocation of endowments. We find that endowment heterogeneities limit the...

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Provision of multilevel public goods through positive externalities: Experimental evidence

Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 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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Accepting the newcomer: Do information and voting shape cooperation within groups?

Baier, Alexandra; Struwe, Natalie - 2024

We study cooperation in an environment where public good providers face the decision to accept a newcomer to their group. A bottom-up process for accepting new members to social groups reveals individual preferences to include newcomers. Alternatively, inclusion can be decided in a top-down...

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