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The choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems: A survey of experimental research
Dannenberg, Astrid; Gallier, Carlo - 2019
in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011030
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Voting in international environmental agreements: Experimental evidence from the lab
Dannenberg, Astrid - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
different voting schemes to determine the terms of the agreement. To this end, unanimity, qualified majority voting, and simple … majority voting are compared with respect to the resulting pollution abatement level and social welfare. At first sight in line … with theoretical predictions, the experiment shows that the change of the voting scheme implemented in an IEA does not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694111
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Stability and explanatory power of inequality aversion: an investigation of the house money effect
Dannenberg, Astrid; Riechmann, Thomas; Sturm, Bodo; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
In this paper, we analyse if individual inequality aversion measured with simple experimental games depends on whether the monetary endowment in these games is either a windfall gain ("house money") or a reward for a certain effort-related performance. Moreover, we analyse whether the way of...
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Coordination under threshold uncertainty in a public goods game
Dannenberg, Astrid; Löschel, Andreas; Paolacci, Gabriele; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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 negative effect of threshold uncertainty was particularly severe when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369492
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Minimum participation rules in international environmental agreements: Empirical evidence from a survey among delegates in international climate negotiations
Kesternich, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015
Recent contributions to the theoretical and experimental literature suggest that minimum participation rules (MPRs) are able to reduce free-riding incentives and may facilitate cooperation (or at least coordination) at the extensive margin of international environmental agreements. Based on a...
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On the performance of rule-based contribution schemes under endowment heterogeneity
Kesternich, Martin; Lange, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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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Voting for burden sharing rules in public goods games
Gallier, Carlo; Kesternich, Martin; Sturm, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
In this experiment, we endogenize the choice of which contribution scheme is implemented in a public goods game. We investigate three rule-based contribution schemes. In a first step, players agree on a common group provision level using the principle of the smallest common denominator....
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The impact of burden sharing rules on the voluntary provision of public goods
Kesternich, Martin; Lange, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
We investigate how burden sharing rules may impact the voluntary provision of a public good which generates heterogeneous benefits to agents. We compare different rule-based contribution schemes that are based on the principle of the smallest common denominator: all agents can suggest a minimum...
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Improving voluntary public good provision by a non-governmental, endogenous matching mechanism: Experimental evidence
Reif, Christiane; Rübbelke, Dirk; Löschel, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Social norms can help to foster cooperation and to overcome the free-rider problem in private provision of public goods. This paper focuses on the enforcement of social norms by a self-introduced punishment and reward scheme. We analyse if subjects achieve to implement a norm-enforcement...
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Inequity Aversion and Individual Behavior in Public Good Games: An Experimental Investigation
Dannenberg, Astrid; Riechmann, Thomas; Sturm, Bodo; … - 2007
We present a simple two-steps procedure for a within-subject test of the inequity aversion model of Fehr and Schmidt (1999). In the first step, subjects played modified ultimatum and dictator games and were classified according to their preferences. In the second step, subjects with specific...
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