Reading assigment

Reading assigment 3

1. what is the problem described in this paper?

The problem is that cooperation in companies do not work efficiently because of people tendency to act rational and selfish when it’s time to corporate

1. what is the main question and how does it relate to the course?

The main question in this text will be: Does people cooperate if others do the same? There is a link with the course because we saw that if in a company “I will cooperate with you if you will corporate with me” which called conditional cooperation

1. what is the conclusion of the literature review explained in the article?

The conclusion is that there is a decline of a proposition of cooperation because of non-negligible fraction of subjects  free  rides  regardless  of  others’  contribution.  Secondly,  even  those  who  are  conditionally cooperative display a bias in the self-serving direction in that they contribute less than the others

4. what is the decision model and what are the available strategies? How is the interaction between individuals accounted for?

5. what is the game chosen to solve this problem? (if the article includes a game)6. why is this game appropriate?

To solve this problem there are 20 tokens. A subject can either keep these tokens for herself  or  invest  them  into  a  so-called  ‘project’.this game is appropriate because that create new interactions with good public

7. how is an experiment constructed and why are there several treatments?

An experiment is to manipulates one or multiple factors to understand their causal effect an see if Experimental methods allow us to distinguish the effect of a set of controlled factors ruling out the influence of others

Is constructed in three parts: 

• Lab experiments​
• Lab-in-the-field experiments​
• Natural field experiments

8. what are the main results?

There is  21 possible average contribution levels of the other group members, the total average over all unconditional decisions  is  6.7  tokens  which  corresponds  to  33.5%  of  the  endowment

9. what is the conclusion?

The decline of the cooperation and that contributions are deteriorating and convergence depends on the actual composition of the group. Positive and stable contributions to the public good are very unlikely

10. how do you put the discussion in the paper into perspective (with direct references to issues you know from "real life")?

Especially in social issues there is these problems because the feeling of feeling unable to act "alone" greatly promotes everyone's egoism. For example, with climate change some people not change their habits because others neither.

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