Strong, bold, and kind: Self-control and cooperation in social dilemmas

MG Kocher, P Martinsson, KOR Myrseth… - Experimental …, 2017 - Springer
We develop a model that relates self-control to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas, and
we test the model in a laboratory public goods experiment. As predicted, we find a robust …

Weak moral motivation leads to the decline of voluntary contributions

C Figuieres, D Masclet… - Journal of Public Economic …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We develop a model that accounts for the decay of the average contribution observed in
experiments on voluntary contributions to a public good. The novel idea is that people's …

Experiments on individual strategy updating in iterated snowdrift game under random rematching

H Qi, S Ma, N Jia, G Wang - Journal of theoretical biology, 2015 - Elsevier
How do people actually play the iterated snowdrift games, particularly under random
rematching protocol is far from well explored. Two sets of laboratory experiments on …

Voluntary contribution mechanism played over an infinite horizon

L Tan, L Wei - Pacific Economic Review, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We experimentally investigate the evolution play in an infinitely repeated voluntary
contribution mechanism (VCM). We find that in infinitely repeated VCM games:(i) average …

When best-replies are not in equilibrium: Understanding cooperative behaviour

I Wolff - 2015 - kops.uni-konstanz.de
In many social situations, human behaviour differs from the Nash-equilibrium under selfish
payoff-maximisation. Numerous social-preference models have been proposed, virtually all …

One for All, All for One---Von Neumann, Wald, Rawls, and Pareto

MS Ismail - Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Applications of the maximin criterion extend beyond economics to computer science,
politics, and statistics. However, the maximin criterion---be it von Neumann's, Wald's, or …

Civic crowd-funding: A potential test of the voluntary theory of public finance for public capital goods

D Hummel - Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial …, 2016 - emerald.com
There have been many innovations in public finance in the 21st century to address
increasing budget constraints and increasing demands from government. One innovation …

Endogenous shared punishment model in threshold public goods games

G Koľveková, M Raisová, M Zoričak, V Gazda - Computational Economics, 2021 - Springer
Population growth and greater human well-being imply increased use of scarce resources,
which makes innovative proposals for fair redistribution policies necessary. The utilisation of …

The circulation of worthless tokens aids cooperation: An experiment inspired by the kula

G Danese, L Mittone - Games, 2018 - mdpi.com
Many anthropological records exist of seemingly worthless tokens exchanged in traditional
societies. The most famous instances of such tokens are probably the Kula necklaces and …

Super-Nash performance in games

MS Ismail - arxiv preprint arxiv:1912.00211, 2019 - arxiv.org
Since the 1990s, artificial intelligence (AI) systems have achieved'superhuman
performance'in major zero-sum games, where winning has an unambiguous definition …