Festival Games: Inebriated and Sober Altruists

Giuseppe Attanasi, James Cox and Vjollca Sadiraj

No 2022-39, GREDEG Working Papers from Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France

Abstract: We run a staged field experiment during three concerts in the South of Italy, characterized by the same traditional music and a comparable average level of alcohol consumption by attendees. Individual blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is measured through electronic breathalyzers. The experimental games proposed to concert attendees are contractions (mini-games) of the private-property and the common-property trust game in Cox et al. (2009). We elaborate predictions on behavior of participants with null vs. positive BAC based on the revealed altruism theory of Cox et al. (2008). We find that alcohol consumption leads to less pro-social behavior (measured as either trust or reciprocity) independently of the version (private-property or common-property) of the trust game. Furthermore, inebriated participants show strategic altruism in the role of first mover (trust), but not in the role of second mover (reciprocity) in the trust game.

Keywords: Staged Field Experiment; Alcohol; Trust Game; Trust; Reciprocity; Private vs. Common Property; Tourists (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C93 Z10 Z32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2022-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cul, nep-exp and nep-gth
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