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Feuds in the Laboratory? A Social Dilemma Experiment

Nikiforakis, Nikos; Engelmann, Dirk - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2008

punishment opportunities to investigate whether the threat of feuds is e¢ ciency enhancing. Treatments di¤er with respect to … whether a punish- ment can trigger a feud. In the main treatment (Feud) the number of punishment stages is endogenously … feuds. While the possibility of a feud a¤ects punishment and contribution patterns, total earnings are not signi?cantly di …

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Mixing the Carrots with the Sticks: Are Punishment and Reward Substitutes

Mitchell, Helen; Nikiforakis, Nikos - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2011

. Controlling for the extent of norm violation, we find that demand for costly punishment is lower when participants also have the …, controlling for the extent of norm adherence. The reason is that participants use reward and punishment to signal their approval …. Similarly, the availability of punishment opportunities allows them to signal their approval by withholding punishment. This …

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Do Attitudes Towards Corruption Differ Across Cultures? Experimental Evidence from Australia, India, Indonesia andSingapore

Cameron, L.; Chaudhuri, A.; Erkal, N.; Gangadharan, L. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2005

subjects in Australia. We also vary our experimental design to examine the impact of a more effective punishment system and the …

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Gender and Corruption: Insights from an Experimental Analysis

Alatas, Vivi; Cameron, Lisa; Chaudhuri, Ananish; Erkal, … - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2006

In recent years, a substantial body of work has emerged in the social sciences exploring differences in the behavior of men and women in various contexts. This paper contributes to this literature by investigating gender differences in attitudes towards corruption. It departs from the previous...

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The Composition of Government Expenditure in an Overlapping Generations Model

Creedy, John; Li, Shuyun May; Moslehi, Solmaz - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2009

This paper examines the choice of government expenditure on public goods and transfer payments (in the form of pension) under majority voting in an overlapping generations model, in which government expenditure is tax-?nanced on a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) basis. The condition required for majority...

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The Composition of Government Expenditure in an Overlapping Generations Model

Creedy, John; Li, Shuyun May; Moslehi, Solmaz - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2008

This paper examines the choice of government expenditure on public goods and transfer payments (in the form of pension) in an overlapping generations model, in which individuals live for two ‘periods’ and expenditure is financed on a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) basis. The condition required for...

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Feedback; Punishment and Cooperation in Public Good Experiments

Nikiforakis, Nikos - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2008

A number of studies have shown that peer punishment can sustain cooperation in public good games. This paper shows that … the format used to give subjects feedback is critical for the e¢ cacy of punishment. Providing subjects with infor- mation …

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Public Good Menus and Feature Complementarity

Roessler, Christian - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2006

The distance metric on the location space for multidimensional public good varieties represents complementarity between the goods features. "Euclidean" feature complementarity has atypical strong properties that lead to a failure of intuition about the optimal-menu design problem. If the...

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MODELS WITH TWO OR MORE PUBLIC GOODS

Cornes, Richard; Itaya, Juni-ichi - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2004

We extend the simple model of voluntary public good provision to allow for two or more public goods, and explore the new possibilities that arise in this setting. We show that, when there are many public goods, voluntary contribution equilibrium typically generates, not only too low a level of...

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Impact of Risk and Uncertainty in the Provision of Local and Global Environmental Goods : An Experimental Analysis

Gangadharan, Lata; Nemes, Veronika - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2005

Uncertainties and risks in the decision making process are abundant in the area of environmental economics, irrespective of whether the problems being discussed are local or global. This paper uses laboratory evidence from public goods games to examine how in payoff equivalent situations,...

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