Arbeitspapier

The variability of conditional cooperation in sequential prisoner's dilemmas

We examine how conditional cooperation is related to the material payoffs in a Sequential Prisoner's Dilemma experiment. We have subjects play eight SPDs with varying payoffs, systematically varying the material gain to the second-mover and the material loss to the first-mover when the second-mover defects in response to cooperation. We find that few second-movers are conditionally cooperative in all eight games, and most second-movers change their strategies from game to game. Second-movers are less likely to conditionally cooperate when the gain is higher and when the loss is lower. This pattern is consistent with models of distributional preferences.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CeDEx Discussion Paper Series ; No. 2022-10

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Relation of Economics to Social Values
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Thema
prisoner's dilemma
conditional cooperation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Gächter, Simon
Lee, Kyeongtae
Sefton, Martin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The University of Nottingham, Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx)
(wo)
Nottingham
(wann)
2022

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Gächter, Simon
  • Lee, Kyeongtae
  • Sefton, Martin
  • The University of Nottingham, Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx)

Entstanden

  • 2022

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