Festival Games: Inebriated and Sober Altruists

Giuseppe Attanasi, James Cox and Vjollca Sadiraj

No 2022-03, Experimental Economics Center Working Paper Series from Experimental Economics Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University

Abstract: We run a staged field experiment during three concerts in the South of Italy, characterized by the same traditional music and a comparable average level of alcohol consumption by attendees. Individual blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is measured with electronic breathalyzers. The experimental games proposed to concert attendees are mini-games of payoff equivalent private and common property games (Cox et al. 2009). We find that alcohol consumption leads to less pro-social behavior independently of the version of the game, and that the rate of efficient choices is more than twice as high in the private property game than in the common property game. Efficiency of play decreases with alcohol consumption, increases with belief about the percentage of participants who are not inebriated, and is higher for tourists than local participants.

Keywords: Staged Field Experiment; Alcohol; Private Property Game; Common Property Game; Reciprocity; Tourists (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C93 Z10 Z32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20
Date: 2023-01
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