The role of utility interdependence in public good experiments

Abstract

Public good experiments, Fairness, Reciprocation, Altruism, C9,

The Patron Game: the Individual Provision of a Public Good

“…14 14 In the NOEFF treatment we observe the highest average contribution (80%) of the whole experiment. It is worth noting first that contributions in the NOEFF treatment are surprisingly high if compared to a very similar Dictator Game in the literature.…”

“…These conditions resulted in a sizeable increase in contributions. Other experiments that remove strategic interaction in a VCM are [14,15]. 5 The number of subjects allowed to contribute (K) can be greater than one.…”

The Behavioral Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Lessons from Experiments with Computer Players

“…Neral and Ochs, 1992), inform participants that they are matched with subjects from a previous session (e.g. Shapiro, 2009, or transform (part of) the game into an individual decision problem using chance moves (e.g. Anderhub et al, 2002, Charness andLevin, 2009).…”

Social preferences and cooperation in simple social dilemma games

“…Andreoni, 1990;Goeree et al, 2002;Crumpler and Grossman, 2008). A number of previous experimental studies have tested this explanation in repeated linear public goods games by comparing the cooperative behavior of human subjects playing with and without a human counterpart (Houser and Kurzban, 2002;Shapiro, 2009;Ferraro and Vossler, 2010;Di Mauro and Castro, 2011;Yamakawa et al, 2016). In treatments without a human counterpart, the other players are automated, playing according to the distribution of choices of human players from previous sessions.…”

“…This method of eliminating potential social preferences has been used previously in several experiments on linear public goods games(Houser and Kurzban, 2002;Shapiro, 2009;Ferraro and Vossler, 2010;Di Mauro and Castro, 2011;Yamakawa et al, 2016) and rent-seeking contests(Cox, 2017).…”