TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Reuben, Ernesto
AU  - Tyran, Jean-Robert
        TI  - Everyone is a Winner: Promoting Cooperation through All-Can-Win Intergroup Competition
        PY  - 2009/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4112
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4112
        AB  - We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i.e. when everyone can be a winner. This type of rank-order competition has the advantage that it can eliminate the negative externality a group's performance imposes on other groups. However, it has the disadvantage that incentives to outperform others are absent if groups perform at the same level and it therefore does not eliminate low-cooperation equilibria. We find that all-can-win competition produces a universal increase in cooperation and benefits a majority of individuals if incentives to compete are strong.
        KW  - public goods
KW  - cooperation
KW  - intergroup competition
KW  - experiment
        ER  -