Co-operation and competition : the role of identity and social preferences

• Main Authors: Chen, Hongyu, Zhang, Ruike, Zhang, Shaoyu
• Other Authors: Yohanes Eko Riyanto
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic theory::Microeconomics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52131
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper presents an experiment of Tullock Rent-seeking Model with two layers of information available to participants, namely Intra-Group Information and Inter-Group Information. As social identity is believed to exert ambiguous effects on social welfare and efficiency, the experiment is designed...