Laboratory experiments in political economy

TR Palfrey - Annual Review of Political Science, 2009 - annualreviews.org
This article summarizes a small part of the literature on laboratory experiments in political
economy. The experiments discussed are primarily aimed at testing predictions of …

Cross-cultural variation in cooperation: A meta-analysis.

G Spadaro, C Graf, S **, S Arai, Y Inoue… - Journal of Personality …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Impersonal cooperation among strangers enables societies to create valuable public goods,
such as infrastructure, public services, and democracy. Several factors have been proposed …

On the provision of public goods with probabilistic and ambiguous thresholds

A Dannenberg, A Löschel, G Paolacci, C Reif… - Environmental and …, 2015 - Springer
Many natural systems involve thresholds that, once triggered, imply irreversible damages for
the users. Although the existence of such thresholds is undisputed, their location is highly …

Experiments in political economy

TR Palfrey - The handbook of experimental economics, 2016 - degruyter.com
According to Wikipedia, 1 “Political Economy refers to different, but related, approaches to
studying economic and related behaviors, ranging from the combination of economics with …

Experimental analysis of risk and uncertainty in provisioning private and public goods

L Gangadharan, V Nemes - Economic Inquiry, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This paper uses laboratory evidence from public goods games to examine how in payoff‐
equivalent situations, decision makers contribute toward private or public goods when they …

Discrete public goods under threshold uncertainty

M McBride - Journal of Public Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
A discrete public good is provided when total contributions exceed the contribution
threshold, yet the threshold is often not known with certainty. I show that the relationship …

Conflict and coordination in the provision of public goods: A conceptual analysis of continuous and step-level games

S Abele, G Stasser, C Chartier - Personality and Social …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Conflicts between individual and collective interests are ubiquitous in social life.
Experimental studies have investigated the resolution of such conflicts using public goods …

Evolution of global contribution in multi-level threshold public goods games with insurance compensation

J Du, L Tang - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Understanding voluntary contribution in threshold public goods games has important
practical implications. To improve contributions and provision frequency, free-rider problem …

Organizing for commons-enabling decision-making under conflicting institutional logics in social entrepreneurship

C Rossignoli, F Ricciardi, S Bonomi - Group Decision and Negotiation, 2018 - Springer
Social entrepreneurship develops innovative opportunities and solutions aimed to (re)
generate the common good. This emerging organizational form poses unprecedented …

What we know (and do not know) about the effects of uncertainty on behavior in social dilemmas

E Van Dijk, A Wit, H Wilke… - … psychological research on …, 2004 - books.google.com
Social dilemmas arise when group members experience a clash between their personal
interests and the interests of the group to which they belong (Dawes, 1980; Komorita & …