Sustaining cooperation in laboratory public goods experiments: a selective survey of the literature

A Chaudhuri - Experimental economics, 2011 - Springer
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 …

Reciprocity, culture and human cooperation: previous insights and a new cross-cultural experiment

S Gächter, B Herrmann - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding the proximate and ultimate sources of human cooperation is a fundamental
issue in all behavioural sciences. In this paper, we review the experimental evidence on …

Are people conditionally cooperative? Evidence from a public goods experiment

U Fischbacher, S Gächter, E Fehr - Economics letters, 2001 - Elsevier
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Giving according to GARP: An experimental test of the consistency of preferences for altruism

J Andreoni, J Miller - Econometrica, 2002 - JSTOR
SUBJECTS IN ECONOMIC LABORATORY experiments have clearly expressed an interest
in behaving unselfishly. They cooperate in prisoners' dilemma games, they give to public …

Social preferences, beliefs, and the dynamics of free riding in public goods experiments

U Fischbacher, S Gächter - American economic review, 2010 - aeaweb.org
One lingering puzzle is why voluntary contributions to public goods decline over time in
experimental and real-world settings. We show that the decline of cooperation is driven by …

Tax morale and conditional cooperation

BS Frey, B Torgler - Journal of comparative economics, 2007 - Elsevier
Why so many people pay their taxes, even though fines and audit probability are low, is a
central question in the tax compliance literature. Positing a homo oeconomicus having a …

Monetary and nonmonetary punishment in the voluntary contributions mechanism

D Masclet, C Noussair, S Tucker… - American Economic …, 2003 - pubs.aeaweb.org
A demand for behavioral norms arises when members of a group have individual incentives
to take actions that reduce the group's overall welfare (James S. Coleman, 1990). Norms …

[PDF][PDF] Theories of fairness and reciprocity-evidence and economic applications

E Fehr, K Schmidt - Working paper/Institute for …, 2001 - research-collection.ethz.ch
Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all
people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental …

The effect of rewards and sanctions in provision of public goods

M Sefton, R Shupp, JM Walker - Economic inquiry, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A growing number of field and experimental studies focus on the institutional arrangements
by which individuals are able to solve collective action problems. Important in this research …

Reputation and reciprocity: Consequences for the labour relation

S Gächter, A Falk - Scandinavian journal of economics, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Recent evidence highlights the importance of social norms in many economic relations.
However, many of these relationships are long term and provide repeated game incentives …