Institutional choice vs communication in social dilemmas – an experimental approach

Arbeitspapier

This paper presents an experimental study that compares the ability of human groups to escape the tragedy of the commons through institutional change or communication. Teams of five players are placed in a dynamic CPR environment with inefficient institutional settings. The results clearly show the vital importance of communication. At the same time, the groups who were allowed to replace the inefficient institutional settings by other more appropriate rules performed worse than those groups who were not given this opportunity.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Finanzwissenschaftliche Arbeitspapiere ; No. 73

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Renewable Resources and Conservation: General ; Externalities ; Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
• Thema: social dilemmas ; laboratory experiment ; group behavior ; institutional choice ; communication ; Gefangenendilemma ; Allmenderessource ; Institutioneller Wandel ; Gruppenentscheidung ; Experiment ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bischoff, Ivo
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften
• (wo): Gießen
• (wann): 2006

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/22381