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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Public Goods Game"”.
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A Multi-Group Public Goods Game Experiment
… extension of the standard finitely repeated public goods game. Our results from four treatments suggest that the multi-group setting indeed raises overall cooperation and dampens the impact of free-riders.</p>
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Role of Social Preferences and Coalitions in a Public Goods Game
The boon of public goods to a society is its inclusive nature where no individual can be restricted from enjoying its fruits. However, this very feature generates proclivity among individuals in the society to escape paying their share towards creation of the public good, which is known as …
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The announcement effect : the impact of early warnings of future thresholds under different framing and risk contexts
… change is the transition from a normal public goods game into a threshold public goods game. Announcements may change subject behaviour, through influencing their expectations, before the implementation of the new institution (adjustment effect) and/or after the implementation …
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Modeling collective dynamics of social systems: Incorporating various social mechanisms into agent-based models
… in groups of individuals playing an iterated public goods game. The second report demonstrates the effects of mental modeling within groups of decision makers. The third report demonstrates a synthesis of evolutionary and cognitive mechanisms.</p>
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Evolution in finite structured populations with group interactions
… evolutionary processes, a class of multiplayer games called social dilemmas are defined for variable group sizes. The two main types of social dilemmas are identified, namely public goods dilemmas and commons dilemmas, and examples of each type of dilemma are given whose characteristics are …
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Economic Experiments on Conflict, Information Acquisition, and Public Goods
… Partial Willful Ignorance and Group Identity in Public Goods Games,” focuses on the effect of information acquisition on contributions to public goods. I also explore human conflict in the third chapter, “Risk Preferences and Reform Paths: Experimental Evidence.”</p> <p>In my first chapter, …
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Essays in Behavioural and Experimental Economics
… students participated in three different games (a public goods game, a response game, and an investment game) and in a task for eliciting risk preferences. I find that only children are less likely to punish for misbehaviour and more likely to choose social welfare maximising actions in …
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Essays on Economic Inequality and Social Capital
… then make decisions in three canonical games: the trust game, the stag-hunt game, and the prisoner’s dilemma. The results show that inequality weakens trustworthiness and coordination on efficient outcomes, even when participants face identical payoff structures. Trust is lower under …
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Standing on the shoulders of birth intergenerational mobility, inequality, and pro-social preferences
… of mother-child co-residence. In trust and public goods games with identical treatment designs, inherited socioeconomic status is assigned in two treatments based on real-world self-reported parental or grandparental socio-economic status. The results show weak overall effects on trust …