The goal of this research is to examine how various grouping designs affect the level of cooperation in a voluntary contributions public goods experiment. In public goods games, subjects choose between different levels of cooperation (investing in a common fund) and free-riding (investing in a private fund). While cooperation increases the total earnings of the group, the individual payoff-maximizing strategy is full free-riding. Thus, individual and collective interests are at odds. This study examines how two of the Big Five personality domains, Agreeableness (A) and Conscientiousness (C), affect individuals’ decisions to cooperate or free-ride. The level of the subjects’ predispositions to be agreeable and conscientious is assessed with ...
Social dilemmas are ―situations in which each decision maker is best off acting in his own self-inte...
The paper explores the relationship between an individual's preference for cooperation and the estab...
We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and ...
Based on an experiment in Japan in 2008, this paper explores a new dimension of thinking. This paper...
Recent research on behavioral heterogeneity in social dilemma situations has increasingly focused on...
Abstract A social dilemma appears in the public goods problem, where the individual has to decide wh...
Many experiments comparing individual and group behavior find that groups behave more egoistically t...
The common focus of the three studies in this dissertation is the tension between cooperative, effic...
In four public good game experiments, we study self-sorting as a means to facilitate cooperation in ...
Accumulating evidence suggests that the outcomes of laboratory public goods games reflect the presen...
We study the effect of group size on cooperation in voluntary contribution mechanism games. As in pr...
We extend the study of behavioural types in voluntary contribution games, adapting the elicitation m...
Norms can promote human cooperation to provide public goods. Yet, the potential of norms to promote ...
Mounting evidence on reciprocal behavior in various social interactions (e.g. Andreoni 1988, Fehr an...
Cooperation is essential for the success of societies and there is an ongoing debate whether individ...
Social dilemmas are ―situations in which each decision maker is best off acting in his own self-inte...
The paper explores the relationship between an individual's preference for cooperation and the estab...
We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and ...
Based on an experiment in Japan in 2008, this paper explores a new dimension of thinking. This paper...
Recent research on behavioral heterogeneity in social dilemma situations has increasingly focused on...
Abstract A social dilemma appears in the public goods problem, where the individual has to decide wh...
Many experiments comparing individual and group behavior find that groups behave more egoistically t...
The common focus of the three studies in this dissertation is the tension between cooperative, effic...
In four public good game experiments, we study self-sorting as a means to facilitate cooperation in ...
Accumulating evidence suggests that the outcomes of laboratory public goods games reflect the presen...
We study the effect of group size on cooperation in voluntary contribution mechanism games. As in pr...
We extend the study of behavioural types in voluntary contribution games, adapting the elicitation m...
Norms can promote human cooperation to provide public goods. Yet, the potential of norms to promote ...
Mounting evidence on reciprocal behavior in various social interactions (e.g. Andreoni 1988, Fehr an...
Cooperation is essential for the success of societies and there is an ongoing debate whether individ...
Social dilemmas are ―situations in which each decision maker is best off acting in his own self-inte...
The paper explores the relationship between an individual's preference for cooperation and the estab...
We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and ...