Detecting motives for cooperation in public goods experiments

Takafumi Yamakawa (), Yoshitaka Okano and Tatsuyoshi Saijo ()
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Takafumi Yamakawa: Osaka University

No SDES-2015-15, Working Papers from Kochi University of Technology, School of Economics and Management

Abstract: This study clarifies the types of motives that are important as a source of cooperation in a linear public goods experiment. Our experimental design separates the contributions due to confusion, one-shot motives (which includes altruism, warm-glow, inequality aversion, and conditional cooperation), and multi-round motives (which includes a strategic motive under incomplete information, a failure of backward induction, and reciprocity). The experiment reveals that multi-round motives plays an important role in driving cooperative behavior. Confusion and one-shot motives play a minor role.

Keywords: Cooperation; Motives; Public goods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C92 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2015-03, Revised 2015-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-exp and nep-gth
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Published in SDE Series, March 2015, pages 1-19

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