Do risk and competition trigger conditional cooperation? Evidence from public good experiments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12615710 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angela Stefania Bergantino (0000-0001-9490-9917, Department of Economics, Management, and Business Law Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro Italy), Sara Gil‐Gallen (0000-0002-5337-9021, Department of Economics, Management, and Business Law Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro Italy, corresponding author), Andrea Morone (0000-0002-5697-0482, Department of Economics, Management, and Business Law Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro Italy) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-73 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1370-4788 • E-ISSN: 1467-8292 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/apce.12348 |
| OpenAlex | W3200125220 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 40 |
We investigate the effect of intra‐group competition and risk marginal per capita returns on subjects' cooperative behavior in a one‐shot public good game—following the well‐known approach proposed by Fischbacher, Gächter, and Fehr (2001) and extending the Colasante et al. (2018, 2019) parametrization. We study the interaction between environment and social preferences and test the existence of a causal relationship of risk and competition over cooperative behavior when an individual's benefit of the public good is heterogeneous and uncertain. Our results report experimental evidence about competition fostering cooperative behavior leading to a rise in contribution for all the subjects regardless of their social preferences. However, risk has a detrimental effect on cooperative behavior due to encouraging free riding
Altruism (biology · Competition (biology · Economics · Free riding · Incentive · Microeconomics · Public economics · Public good · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |