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| Title: | | Everyone is a winner: promoting cooperation through all-can-win intergroup competition  |
| Authors: | | Reuben, Ernesto Tyran, Jean-Robert |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 4112 |
| Abstract: | | We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i.e. when everyone can be a winner. This type of rank-order competition has the advantage that it can eliminate the negative externality a group's performance imposes on other groups. However, it has the disadvantage that incentives to outperform others are absent if groups perform at the same level and it therefore does not eliminate low-cooperation equilibria. We find that all-can-win competition produces a universal increase in cooperation and benefits a majority of individuals if incentives to compete are strong. |
| Subjects: | | Intergroup competition cooperation public goods experiment |
| JEL: | | H41 M52 C92 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-2009051399 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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