People Are Conditional Rule Followers

Pieter Desmet () and Christoph Engel
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No 2017_09, Discussion Paper Series of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods from Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Abstract: Experimental participants are more likely to follow an arbitrary rule the more of their peers do so as well. The difference between unconditional and conditional rule following is most pro-nounced for individuals who follow few rules unconditionally.

Keywords: conditional rule following; deontological motives; conditional cooperation; experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 C91 D03 D63 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-05
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