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Everyone is a Winner: Promoting Cooperation through Non-Rival Intergroup Competition

Author(s) -

Ernesto Reuben,

JeanRobert Tyran

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

ssrn electronic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1556-5068

DOI - 10.2139/ssrn.1296454

Subject(s) - competition (biology) , incentive , economics , microeconomics , business , social psychology , psychology , ecology , biology

In this paper, we study the effectiveness of intergroup competition in promoting cooperative behavior. We focus on intergroup competition that is non-rival in the sense that everyone can be a winner. This type of competition does not give groups an incentive to outcompete others. However, in spite of this fact, we find that intergroup competition produces a universal increase in cooperation. Furthermore, in settings where there are strong incentives to compete, intergroup competition benefits a majority of individuals.

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