Confusion and Learning in the Public Goods Game

Ralph-C Bayer (), Elke Renner and Rupert Sausgruber
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Rupert Sausgruber: University of Copenhagen

No 2010-24, School of Economics and Public Policy Working Papers from University of Adelaide, School of Economics and Public Policy

Abstract: We test if confusion and learning could potentially explain all the decay of contributions in the repeated public goods games by implementing a limited information environment to mimic the state of confusion. A comparison shows that the rate of decline is more than twice as high in a standard public goods game. Furthermore, we find that simple learning cannot generate the contribution dynamics, which are commonly attributed to the existence of conditional cooperators. We conclhttps://media.adelaide.edu.au/economics/ic goods games is not a pure artefact of confusion and learning.

Keywords: public goods experiments; learning; limited information; confusion; conditional cooperation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 D83 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2010-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-evo, nep-exp, nep-gth, nep-pbe and nep-pub
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