Second Thoughts on Free Riding
- Author(s)
- Ulrik H. Nielsen, Jean-Robert Tyran, Erik Wengström
- Abstract
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 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.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Economics, Vienna Center for Experimental Economics
- External organisation(s)
- Lund University, University of Copenhagen
- Journal
- Economics Letters
- Volume
- 122
- Pages
- 136-139
- No. of pages
- 4
- ISSN
- 0165-1765
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.11.021
- Publication date
- 02-2014
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 502047 Economic theory
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics and Econometrics, Finance
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/second-thoughts-on-free-riding(07a62ecf-a123-40fb-bb7d-49afb1757670).html