Rogers, Douglas B.; Smith, Adam C.; Wilson, Bart J. - In: European Journal of Political Economy 29 (2013) C, pp. 1-17
We conduct a laboratory experiment to examine the performance of a market for protection. As the central feature of our treatment comparisons, we vary the access that “peasants” have to violence-empowered “elites”. The focus of the experiment is to observe how elites enforce and operate...