Conditional cooperation on three continents

Martin Kocher, Todd Cherry, Stephan Kroll (stephan.kroll@colostate.edu), Robert J. Netzer (robert.netzer@uibk.ac.at) and Matthias Sutter

Working Papers from Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck

Abstract: We show in a public goods experiment on three continents that conditional cooperation is a universal behavioral regularity. Yet, the number of conditional cooperators and the extent of conditional cooperation are much higher in the U.S.A. than anywhere else.

Keywords: conditional cooperation; public goods; experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C91 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2007-02
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