• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The Role of Non-Monetary and Strategic Considerations in the Public Good Games
  • Contributor: Shapiro, Dmitry A. [Author]
  • Published: [S.l.]: SSRN, 2005
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (27 p)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.669229
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  • Footnote: Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 2005 erstellt
  • Description: The goal of the paper is to test the importance of such factors as fairness, reciprocation and altruism in subjects' reasoning. I consider the phantom treatment where subjects are randomly matched with the decisions that were made in the (separate) benchmark treatment, and two-type treatments where one type of subjects gets fixed payment regardless of the outcome, and the second type has a standard payoff function, with only the opponent's type being known. The main result is that removal of non-monetary and strategic considerations decrease the average over-contribution only by 40%, which means that these considerations are not the main cause of subjects' suboptimal behavior in the benchmark
  • Access State: Open Access