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Risk and Cooperation : Experimental Evidence from Stochastic Public Good Games

Wengström, Erik LU and Vesely, Stepan (2017) In Working Papers 2017(3).
Abstract
Outcomes in social dilemmas often have a stochastic component. We report experimental findings from public good games with both correlated and independent risk across players. We find that the presence of both types of risk prevents the decay of cooperation typically observed in the standard deterministic public good game. The results further suggest that it is greater relative importance of social norms or warm glow giving, rather than risk sharing opportunities that foster cooperation in our stochastic public good game.
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risk pooling, risk sharing, social norms, linear public goods game, cooperation decay, stable cooperation, H41, D03, D80
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2017
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3
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32 pages
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Department of Economics, Lund University
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  author       = {{Wengström, Erik and Vesely, Stepan}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
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  publisher    = {{Department of Economics, Lund University}},
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  title        = {{Risk and Cooperation : Experimental Evidence from Stochastic Public Good Games}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/22136868/wp17_3.pdf}},
  volume       = {{2017}},
  year         = {{2017}},
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