Conditional cooperation on three continents

被引:205
作者
Kocher, Martin G. [2 ]
Cherry, Todd [3 ]
Kroll, Stephan [1 ]
Netzer, Robert J. [4 ]
Sutter, Matthias [4 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Colorado State Univ, Dept Agr & Resource Econ, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
[2] Univ Munich, D-80539 Munich, Germany
[3] Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC 28608 USA
[4] Univ Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
[5] Univ Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
关键词
Conditional cooperation; Public goods; Experiment;
D O I
10.1016/j.econlet.2008.07.015
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We show in a public goods experiment on three continents that conditional cooperation is a universal behavioral regularity. Yet, the number of conditional cooperators and the extent of conditional cooperation are much higher in the United States than anywhere else. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:175 / 178
页数:4
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