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Adding noise to the institution: an experimental welfare investigation of the contribution-based grouping mechanism

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2018
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Nax, H. H., Balietti, S., Murphy, R. O., & Helbing, D. (2018). Adding noise to the institution: an experimental welfare investigation of the contribution-based grouping mechanism. Social Choice and Welfare, 50(2), 213–245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-017-1081-5

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Real-world institutions dealing with social dilemma situations are based on mechanisms that are rarely implemented without flaw. Usually real-world mechanisms are noisy and imprecise, that is, which we call ‘fuzzy’. We therefore conducted a novel type of voluntary contributions experiment where we test a mechanism by varying its fuzziness. We focus on a range of fuzzy mechanisms we call ‘meritocratic matching’. These mechanisms generalize the mechanism of ‘contribution-based competitive grouping’, and their basic function is to group

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50

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2

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213

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245

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English

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2018-02-01

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2020-11-11

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0176-1714

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Nax, H. H., Balietti, S., Murphy, R. O., & Helbing, D. (2018). Adding noise to the institution: an experimental welfare investigation of the contribution-based grouping mechanism. Social Choice and Welfare, 50(2), 213–245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-017-1081-5

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