On the (in)effectiveness of rewards in sustaining cooperation

被引:32
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作者
Vyrastekova, Jana [1 ]
van Soest, Daan [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Nijmegen, Dept Econ, NL-6500 HK Nijmegen, Netherlands
[2] Tilburg Univ, Dept Econ & Ctr, NL-5000 LE Tilburg, Netherlands
关键词
peer enforcement; rewards; common pool resource; economic experiment;
D O I
10.1007/s10683-006-9153-x
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We study the effectiveness of costly rewards in mitigating excess extraction in a standard Common Pool Resource (CPR) game experiment. We implement two treatments. In the first, rewards are a pure transfer from one player to the other. In the second, the benefits of receiving a reward are higher than the cost of providing it. Referring to the latter as "net positive" rewards, we observe that these are used more frequently than transfer rewards, and that, unlike transfer rewards, they are effective in sustaining cooperation in the CPR game.
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页数:13
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