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Sustaining cooperation in laboratory public goods experiments: a selective survey of the literature
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The authors survey the literature post Ledyard (Handbook of Experimental Economics, ed. by J. Kagel, A. Roth, Chap. 2, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1995) on three related issues in linear public goods experiments: (1) conditional cooperation; (2) the role of costly monetary punishments in sustaining cooperation and (3) the sustenance of cooperation via means other than such punishments.Abstract:
I survey the literature post Ledyard (Handbook of Experimental Economics, ed. by J. Kagel, A. Roth, Chap. 2, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1995) on three related issues in linear public goods experiments: (1) conditional cooperation; (2) the role of costly monetary punishments in sustaining cooperation and (3) the sustenance of cooperation via means other than such punishments. Many participants in laboratory public goods experiments are “conditional cooperators” whose contributions to the public good are positively correlated with their beliefs about the average group contribution. Conditional cooperators are often able to sustain high contributions to the public good through costly monetary punishment of free-riders but also by other mechanisms such as expressions of disapproval, advice giving and assortative matching.read more
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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods Experiments
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Trust games: A meta-analysis
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Reward, Punishment, and Cooperation: A Meta-Analysis
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A Survey of Experimental Research on Contests, All-Pay Auctions and Tournaments
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A survey of experimental research on contests, all-pay auctions and tournaments
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of experimental research on these three canonical contests can be found in this article, where the basic structure of contests, including the number of players and prizes, spillovers and externalities, heterogeneity, risk and incomplete information, are investigated.
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