ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN TURKISH CULTURE: PUBLIC GOODS GAMES AND LONELY ELEPHANTS

Benjamin Beranek and Alper Duman

No 1004, Working Papers from Izmir University of Economics

Abstract: While the public good experiment has been used to analyze cooperation among various groups in Western Europe and North America, it has not been extensively used in other contexts such as Turkey. This project seeks to rectify that and explore how Turkish university students informally self govern. By employing the public good experiment among a cohort of students attending universities in Ýzmir, Turkey and Adýyaman, Turkey, we hope to quantitatively analyze the factors which lead to altruistic punishment, to antisocial punishment, and ultimately to enhanced cooperation in Turkish society.

Keywords: Cooperation; Free Riding; Altruism; Punishment; Trust; Experimental Economics; Public Good Experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C91 D03 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2010-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ara, nep-cbe, nep-cwa, nep-evo, nep-exp, nep-gth, nep-hpe and nep-soc
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