Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31709 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Jena Economic Research Papers No. 2009,029
Publisher: 
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
This paper provides a new way to identify conditional cooperation in a real-time version of the standard voluntary contribution mechanism. Our approach avoids most drawbacks of the traditional procedures because it relies on endogenous cycle lengths, which are defined by the number of contributors a player waits before committing to a further contribution. Based on hypothetical distributions of randomly generated contribution sequences, we provide strong evidence for conditionally cooperative behavior. Moreover, notwithstanding a decline in contributions, conditional cooperation is found to be stable over time.
Subjects: 
Public goods game
Real-time protocol
Information feedback
Conditional cooperation
Simulations
JEL: 
C72
C92
H41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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