Human cooperation in the lab and in the field - experimenting with economics
This dissertation is the result of an attempt to understand how institutions and social-preferences affect human cooperation under two distinct social dilemmas, a 2-person public goods and the extraction of a common pool resource by several players, through the use of experimental methods to analyze...
- Autores:
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Mantilla Ribero, César Andrés
- Tipo de recurso:
- Doctoral thesis
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2013
- Institución:
- Universidad de los Andes
- Repositorio:
- Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/7788
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/1992/7788
- Palabra clave:
- Economía experimental
Desigualdad económica
Cooperación económica
Economía
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
| Summary: | This dissertation is the result of an attempt to understand how institutions and social-preferences affect human cooperation under two distinct social dilemmas, a 2-person public goods and the extraction of a common pool resource by several players, through the use of experimental methods to analyze individuals? behavior. In this work we address two main questions: (i) how the perception of potential inequality erodes asymmetrically the intentions to cooperate, i.e., how the fear of being taken advantage of might have a worst effect than the greed induced by the temptation of taking advantage of the other; and (ii) how centralized communication networks influence cooperative responses to messages according to the number of receivers. Theoretical foundations in these questions are akin to the perspective of a behavioral scientist, by providing explanations to our experimental results based on the coexistence of selfish and other-regarding behaviors, and the internalization of social norms endogenously established |
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