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The Courtesy Games: Efficiency, Inequality, and the Demand for Regulation

  • Co-Author:Prof. Timo Heinrich (Hamburg University of Technology), Prof. Stefan Traub, and Christine Meemann (both Helmut Schmidt University / Bundeswehr University)
  • Keywords: Experiment, Courtesy Game, Efficiency, Inequality, Regulation

Project Details

Many commuters face a trade-off between spending time in traffic jams or starting their journey later to avoid congestion but risk being late for work. In this project we focus on the balance between equality and efficiency in this trade-off. Through a combination of experimental analysis and a large-scale vignette study, we gather representative preferences for equality and efficiency across different travel scenarios based on the experimental data.