Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204327 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
FOI Working Paper No. 2011/11
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
Earlier studies have found that a substantial part of the contributions in public good games can be explained by subjects misperceiving the game's incentives. Using a large-scale public good experiment, we show that subtle changes in how the game is framed substantially affect such misperceptions and that this explains major parts of framing effect on subjects' behavior. When controlling for the different levels of misperception between frames, the framing effect on subjects' cooperation preferences disappears.
Subjects: 
Public goods
Cooperation
Misperception
Framing effects
Internet experiment
JEL: 
H41
C90
D03
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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