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Author
A. Kopányi-Peuker
T. Offerman
R. Sloof
Year
2012
Title
Fostering cooperation through the enhancement of own vulnerability
Number of pages
37
Publisher
Amsterdam: Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Serie
CREED Working Paper
Document type
Working paper
Faculty
Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB)
Institute
Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract
We consider the possibility that cooperation in a prisoner's dilemma is fostered by people's voluntarily enhancement of their own vulnerability. The vulnerability of a player determines the effectiveness of possible punishment by the other. In the "Gradual" mechanism, players may condition their incremental enhancements of their vulnerability on the other's choices. In the "Leap" mechanism, they unconditionally choose their vulnerability. In our experiment, subjects only learn to cooperate when either one of these mechanisms is allowed. In agreement with theory, subjects
aiming for cooperation choose higher vulnerability levels in Gradual than in Leap, which maps into higher mutual cooperation levels.
Link
Link
Language
English
Note
November 27, 2012
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.379877

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