Erik Wengström
Studierektor forskarutbildning, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Professor
Second Thoughts on Free Riding
Författare
Summary, in English
We use the strategy method to classify subjects into cooperator types in a large-scale online Public Goods Game and find that free riders spend more time on making their decisions than conditional cooperators and other cooperator types. This result is robust to reversing the framing of the game and is not driven by free riders lacking cognitive ability, confusion, or natural swiftness in responding. Our results suggest that conditional cooperation serves as a norm and that free riders need time to resolve a moral dilemma.
Avdelning/ar
- Nationalekonomiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2014
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
136-139
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Economics Letters
Volym
122
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Economics
Nyckelord
- Response Time
- Free Riding
- Public Goods
- Experiment
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0165-1765