Does the reliability of institutions affect public good contributions? Evidence from a laboratory experiment

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Reliable institutions - i.e., institutions that live up to the norms that agents expect them to keep - foment cooperative behavior. We experimentally confirm this hypothesis in a public goods game with a salient norm that cooperation was socially demanded and corruption ought not to occur. When nevertheless corruption attempts came up, groups that were told that "the system" had fended off the attempts made considerably higher contributions to the public good than groups that only learned that the attempt did not aect their payoffs or that were not at all exposed to corruption.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2016: Demographischer Wandel - Session: Public Goods ; No. B10-V2

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Public Goods ; Relation of Economics to Social Values ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Jahnke, Björn ; Fochmann, Martin ; Wagener, Andreas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (where): Kiel und Hamburg
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/145646
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET