Cycles of conditional cooperation in a real-time voluntary contribution mechanism

DOI10.3390/G2010001MaRDI QIDQ2344959zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Vittoria Levati, Ro'i Zultan

Publication date 19 May 2015

Published in Games (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3390/g2010001

zbMATH Keywords

conditional cooperationinformation feedbackpublic goods gamereal-time protocol

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental studies (91A90) Public goods (91B18)

Review text

Summary: This paper provides a new way to identify conditional cooperation in a real-time version of the standard voluntary contribution mechanism. We define contribution cycles as the number of contributors a player waits for before committing to a further contribution, and use a permutation test on contribution cycles to assign a measure of conditional cooperation to each group play. The validity of the measures is tested in an experiment. We find that roughly 20\% of the plays exhibit dynamics of conditional cooperation. Moreover, notwithstanding a decline in contributions, conditional cooperation is found to be stable over time.

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