Arbeitspapier
Monitoring institutions in indefinitely repeated games
Does monitoring past conduct facilitate intertemporal cooperation? We designed an experiment characterized by strategic uncertainty and multiple equilibria where coordinating on the efficient outcome is a challenge. Participants, interacting anonymously in a group, could pay a cost either to obtain information about their counterparts, or to create a freely available public record of individual conduct. Both monitoring institutions were actively employed. However, groups were unable to attain higher levels of cooperation compared to a treatment without monitoring. Information about past conduct alone thus appears to be ineffective in overcoming coordination challenges.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE ; No. 1046
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Game Theory and Bargaining Theory: General
Design of Experiments: General
Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Camera, Gabriele
Casari, Marco
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Veröffentlichung
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Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE)
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Bologna
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2015
- DOI
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doi:10.6092/unibo/amsacta/4427
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Camera, Gabriele
- Casari, Marco
- Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE)
Entstanden
- 2015