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- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 5
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- Erschienen
- 23. Dezember 2011
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2011-066
- Schlagwort(e)
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Asymmetric marginal benefit
One-way communication
Privileged groups
Public goods
- Zusammenfsg.
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Koukoumelis et al. (2010, 2012) have shown that one-way communication enhances contributions to public goods. We investigate the effectiveness of one-way communication, when the benefits from the public good are asymmetric and the sender of a message is the main beneficiary of cooperation. Our results show that, in the absence of communication opportunities, contribution behavior may be inversely related to other group members’ marginal benefits from the public good. The effectiveness of one-way communication, however, remains unaffected even though compliance with a sender’s suggestion to cooperate generates unfavorable payoff inequalities for message receivers. The results also indicate that one-way messages have to relate to the experimental game to enhance cooperation. Merely “giving someone a voice” is not sufficient.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- C72 - Noncooperative Games ; C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; C92 - Laboratory, Group Behavior ; D74 - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances ; H41 - Public Goods