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Preferences over punishment and reward mechanisms in social dilemmas

Kocher, Martin; Matzat, Dominik - In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics : JITE 172 (2016) 1, pp. 163-194

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Preferences over punishment and reward mechanisms in social dilemmas: comment

Spitzer, Matthew Laurence - In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics : JITE 172 (2016) 1, pp. 195-199

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Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014) C, pp. 319-330

We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...

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Choosing the Stick or the Carrot? Endogenous Institutional Choice in Social Dilemma Situations

Haigner, Stefan; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

find a large and positive effect of endogenous institutional choice on the level of cooperation in comparison to … exogenously implemented institutions. This suggests that democratic participation rights enhance cooperation in groups. With … endogenous choice, groups typically vote for the reward option, even though punishment is actually more effective in sustaining …

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Social background, cooperative behavior, and norm enforcement

Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 341-354

Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechanism have been documented in cross-cultural studies, recently. We present data which prove that stark...

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