The limit to behavioral inertia and the power of default in voluntary contribution games

• Main Authors: Liu, Jia, Riyanto, Yohanes Eko
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Voluntary Contribution; Behavioral Inertia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86851; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44240
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

It is well documented that people are reluctant to switch from a default option. We experimentally test the robustness of this behavioral inertia in a collective decision-making setting by varying the default option type and the decision-making environment. We examine the impacts of automatic-partic...