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You are now participating in an economic experiment. If you read the following instructions carefully, you can, depending on your decisions and the decisions of others, earn a considerable amount of money. It is therefore very important that you read these instructions with care. The currency used in this experiment is Experimental Currency Units (ECU), where 1 ECU = 0.05 AUD. Should you have any questions please ask us.


Task

You are part of a group of 4 individuals. In the beginning of this task you and every other member of your group will be endowed with 8 tokens. You must decide how to allocate your tokens between a Private Account and a Group Account. Your allocation decision must be in whole token form, i.e. allocating 2.5 tokens to the Group Account and 5.5 tokens to the Private Account is not possible. Each person in the group has a Private Account and is making a similar decision on how to allocate their tokens. However, there is only one Group Account for the entire group. Once you have decided how much of your endowment to contribute to the Group Account you will receive feedback on your computer screen relating to your contribution as well as the contributions made by the other members of your group towards the Group Account. You will also receive feedback relating to your payoff in AUD.


After everyone has had a chance to look at the results screen you and the other members of your group will be placed in a private breakout room. While in the breakout room each of you will be required to turn your camera and microphone on to complete the ID check. You will not know who made which contribution. Hence, your contributions will be unidentifiable.


Remuneration

Each token you place in the Private Account generates a payoff to you (and to you alone), and each token you place in the Group Account generates a payoff to every member of your group. Your total payoff for this task is the sum of your payoff from the Private Account and your payoff from the Group Account. Payoffs for the two accounts are listed in the Payoff Table below. The payoff of each group member from the Group Account is calculated in the same way. This means that each group member receives the same payoff from the Group Account.




Example

Suppose you contributed 6 tokens towards the Group Account and the total contribution made by all group members to the Group Account was 20 tokens. In this case each member of the group receives a payoff from the Group Account of 100 ECU. You will also receive a payoff of 50 ECU for the amount of tokens you kept in your Private Account, i.e. the payoff for keeping 2 tokens in your Private Account is 50 ECU. So your total payoff will be 50 + 100 = 150 ECU. Recall, 1 ECU = 0.05 AUD, hence, in this example your payoff will be 0.05 × 150 = 7.50 AUD.



Quiz question 3 of 4

Please answer the following question to check your understanding of the experiment.

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