Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Lotito, Gianna 
Author-Email: gianna.lotito@uniupo.it
Author-Name: Migheli, Matteo 
Author-Email: matteo.migheli@unito.it
Author-Name: Ortona, Guido 
Author-Email:guido.ortona@uniupo.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: Competition, Information and Cooperation.
Abstract: We inquire experimentally whether rivalry induced by competition has any impact on the individual voluntary contribution 
to a public good. Participants perform a task and are remunerated according to two schemes, a noncompetitive and a competitive one, 
then they play a standard public goods game. In the first scheme participants earn a flat remuneration, in the latter they are ranked 
according to their performance and remunerated accordingly. Information about ranking and income, before the game is played, varies 
across three different treatments. We find that competition per se does not affect the amount of contribution. The time spent to choose
how much to contribute is negatively correlated with the decision of cooperating fully. The main result is that full information about 
the relative performance in the competitive environment enhances cooperation, while partial information reduces it.
Length: pages 28
Creation-Date: 2017-09
File-URL: http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati/wp2017dip/wp_31_2017.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:dipeco:201731