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Monetary and Non-Monetary Punishment in the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism

Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles; Tucker, Steven; … - HAL - 2001

opportunity to punish others on the level contributions in the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism. The punishment is costly for … both the players distributing and those receiving the punishment. Like Fehr and Gaechter, we find that agents often engage … in non-credible costly punishment behavior in order to reduce earnings of others who contribute low amounts to the public …

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Coordination in Teams : A Real Effort-task Experiment with Informal Punishment

Vranceanu, Radu; Ouardighi, Fouad El; Dubart, Delphine - HAL - 2013

This paper reports the results from a real-effort team production experiment, where best performers can impose either tacit or explicit sanctions on their less-performing partners. The behavior of the best performer in the team differs from one condition to another. When explicit sanctions are...

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Mixing the Carrots with the Sticks : Third Party Punishment and Reward

Nikiforakis, Nikos; Mitchell, Helen - HAL - 2014

laboratory studies, the demand for punishment and reward are studied separately from one another. This paper presents the results … from an experiment measuring the demand for reward and punishment by 'unaffected' third parties, separately and jointly. We … find that the demand for costly punishment is substantially lower when individuals are also given the ability to reward …

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Punishment, inequality, and welfare : a public good experiment

Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2008

This paper reports the results of an experiment that investigates the relationships between inequality and punishment …. In particular, we analyze how inter-personal comparisons affect altruistic punishment behavior. In addition, we examine … how punishment affects inequality over time. We compare two treatments of a two-stage public good game, one in which …

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Punishment, Counterpunishment and Sanction Enforcement in a Social Dilemma Experiment

Masclet, David; Denant-Boèmont, Laurent; Noussair, Charles - HAL - 2006

third parties, and punish low contributors, even when punishment is costly to the sanctioner. When there are five rounds of …

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On the Definition of Public Goods. Assessing Richard A. Musgrave's contribution

Demarais-Tremblay, Maxime - HAL - 2014

This paper provides an explanation of the emergence of the standars textbook definition of public goods in the middle of the 20th century. It focuses on Richard Musgrave's contribution in defining public goods as non-rival and non-excludable - from 1939 to 1969. Although Samuelson's mathematical...

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Social fragmentation and public goods : polarization, inequality and patronage in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar

Bros, Catherine - HAL - 2010

A vast recent literature has stressed social fragmentation's negative impact on the provision of public goods. It has been established theoretically that social fragmentation engenders discord and thereby undermines public goods provision. Empirical research has produced mixed results about this...

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Edgeworth and Lindahl-Foley equilibria of a general equilibrium model with private provision of pure public goods

Florenzano, Monique; Mercato, Elena L. Del - HAL - 2006

In this paper, we propose a definition of Edgeworth equilibrium for a private ownership production economy with (possibly infinitely) many private goods and a finite number of pure public goods. We show that Edgeworth equilibria exist whatever be the dimension of the private goods space, and can...

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Bargaining over public goods

Davila, Julio; Eeckhout, Jan; Martinelli, César - HAL - 2008

In a simple public good economy, we propose a natural bargaining procedure whose equilibria converge to Lindahl allocations as the cost of bargaining vanishes. The procedure splits the decision over the allocation in a decision about personalized prices and a decision about output levels for the...

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General equilibrium

Florenzano, Monique - HAL - 2007

Unlike partial equilibrium analysis which study the equilibrium of a particular market under the clause "ceteris paribus" that revenues and prices on the other markets stay approximately unaffected, the ambition of a general equilibrium model is to analyze the simultaneous equilibrium in all...

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