Conspiracy against the public - An experiment on collusion
| Autor: | Åshild Auglænd Johnsen, Ola Kvaløy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210::Bedriftsøkonomi: 213 [VDP] General Social Sciences Public good Outcome (game theory) Social preferences Microeconomics Dilemma økonomi Interpersonal ties Collusion Economics Baseline (configuration management) Applied Psychology Externality |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics |
| ISSN: | 2214-8043 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.socec.2021.101742 |
| Popis: | We study to what extent collusive behavior is affected by the awareness of negative externalities. Theories of outcome-based social preferences suggest that negative externalities make collusion harder to sustain than predicted by standard economic theory, while sociological theories of social ties and intergroup comparisons suggest that bilateral cooperation can be strengthened if there exist outsiders that gain from cooperative break down. We investigate this in a laboratory experiment. Subjects play the infinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma with and without a negative externality. The externality is implemented by letting subjects make a positive contribution to a public good if they choose to deviate from cooperation between the two, i.e. cooperation is collusive since the gains are at the expense of the public. We find that this negative externality tends to increase collusive behavior. Initially, the level of cooperation is lower, but as subjects gain experience and observe that their partners choose to cooperate despite the negative externality, they cooperate as least as much as in the baseline treatment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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