The Influence of Social Values in Cooperation

Robert Feyer (), Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger () and Stefan Pickl ()
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Robert Feyer: SIEMENS Vienna
Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger: University of Graz
Stefan Pickl: University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich

A chapter in Operations Research Proceedings 2007, 2008, pp 205-210 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper deals with the topic of cooperation among economic agents in a repeated game with unknown length. There is still little empirical evidence why and under which conditions people cooperate at all in situations such as the prisoner’s dilemma game (PDG). There is extensive literature on the theory of infinitely repeated games and also a large number of explanations for cooperative behaviour. Experimental evidence on the question how future features will affect the behaviour is rare and the classification of the participants into social and selfish oriented types is new in this context. Modern contract theory deals a lot with the willingness to cooperate. Therefore we raise the question under which conditions cooperation is created in special economic situations (for example in energy contracts). The present study examines the influence of pre-existing individual differences in social value orientations measured by the outcomes to oneself and others according to the ring measure by McClintock [10]. We run an experiment in the lab and we are able to figure out the high percentage at cooperation in a PDG in which the number of future rounds is unknown and the fact that cooperation is significantly dependent on the type of the subjects’ social value orientation.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77903-2_32

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