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Are people conditionally cooperative? Evidence from a public goods experiment

Urs Fischbacher, +2 more
- 01 Jun 2001 - 
- Vol. 71, Iss: 3, pp 397-404
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This article studied the importance of conditional cooperation in a one-shot public goods game by using a variant of the strategy-method and found that a third of the subjects can be classified as free riders, whereas 50% are conditional cooperators.
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This article is published in Economics Letters.The article was published on 2001-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2133 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reciprocity (evolution) & Public goods game.

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Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

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The nature of human altruism

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A Theory of Reciprocity

Armin Falk, +1 more
- 01 Apr 2001 - 
TL;DR: The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action, and explains the relevant stylized facts of a wide range of experimental games.
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Social Norms and Energy Conservation

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A theory of reciprocity

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z-Tree: Zurich toolbox for ready-made economic experiments

Urs Fischbacher
- 07 Feb 2007 - 
TL;DR: Z-Tree as mentioned in this paper is a toolbox for ready-made economic experiments, which allows programming almost any kind of experiments in a short time and is stable and easy to use.
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A theory of fairness, competition and cooperation

Ernst Fehr, +1 more
- 01 Aug 1999 - 
TL;DR: This paper showed that if some people care about equity, the puzzles can be resolved and that the economic environment determines whether the fair types or the selesh types dominate equilibrium behavior in cooperative games.
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Public Goods: A Survey of Experimental Research

John O. Ledyard
- 31 Dec 1995 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a review is made of various public goods experiments and it is found that the public goods environment is a very sensitive one with much that can affect outcomes but are difficult to control.
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Motivation, Knowledge Transfer, and Organizational Forms

Margit Osterloh, +2 more
- 01 Nov 1999 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors ask specifically what kinds of motivation are needed to generate and transfer tacit knowledge, as opposed to explicit knowledge, for knowledge generation and transfer in an organizational form.
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Are People Conditionally Cooperative? Evidence from a Public Goods Experiment

Urs Fischbacher, +3 more
- 06 Jan 2000 - 
TL;DR: The authors studied the importance of conditional cooperation in a one-shot public goods game by using a variant of the strategy-method and found that a third of the subjects can be classified as free riders, whereas 50 percent are conditional cooperators.
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The authors study the importance of conditional cooperation in a one-shot public goods game by using a variant of the strategy-method. The authors find that a third of the subjects can be classified as free riders, whereas 50 % are conditional cooperators.