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Playing with the Good Guys - A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation

Brekke, Kjell Arne - 2013

In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start off high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will self-select into groups committed to charitable...

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Conditional Cooperation and the Effect of Punishment

Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2018

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish others. In particular, we disentangle the decision to be a...

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Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion

Cubitt, Robin P. - 2015

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....

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Partial Coercion, Conditional Cooperation, and Self-Commitment in Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods

Cettolin, Elena - 2011

In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation increase contributions to a public good. We are especially interested in the behavior of the non-coerced populations. The main finding is that in our setting conditional...

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Strong, Bold, and Kind : Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian … - 2021

predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels …

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Free-Riding in the Lab and in the Field

Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2021

To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments … in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We … the two placebo treatments. We conclude that we can use lab experiments to learn about behavior in situations that share …

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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments

Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - 2021

individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them - as well as subjects' elicited beliefs - to explain …

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Public Goods Provision with Rent-Extracting Administrators

Cagala, Tobias - 2018

This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent …

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Security of Property as a Public Good : Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2021

We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...

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The political economy of public debt : a laboratory study

Battaglini, Marco; Nunnari, Salvatore; Palfrey, Thomas R. - 2016

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