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Monetary and non Monetary Punishment in the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism

Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles; Tucker, Steven; … - HAL - 2003

A demand for behavioral norms arises when members of a group have individual incentives to take actions that reduce the group's overall welfare (James S. Coleman, 1990). Norms require enforcement with a system of sanctions that penalize deviations from acceptable behavior (George C. Homans,...

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Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments

Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2010

punishment, so that they increase overall welfare ? We report an experiment in which players can issue non-binding threats to …

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Ambiguity on audits and cooperation in a public goods game

Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2014

We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...

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Are teams less inequality averse than individuals?

He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2014

designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …

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Social Fragmentation and Public Goods Revisiting the Olson's Effect in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar

Bros, Catherine - HAL - 2009

A vast recent literature has stressed social fragmentation's negative impact on the provision of public goods. This is a key issue, given that public goods availability has been reckoned as crucial to economic development, while developing countries' societies often exhibit high degrees of...

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

Bros, Catherine - HAL - 2010

presence of public goods. This article aims at showing that such a positive relationship does exist, at least in parts of India …

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Dumbing down rational players : learning and teaching in an experimental game

Terracol, Antoine; Vaksmann, Jonathan - HAL - 2007

This paper uses experimental data to examine the existence of a teaching strategy among bounded rational players. If players realize that their own actions modify their opponent's beliefs and actions, they might play certain actions to this specific end ; and forego immediate payoffs if the...

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The monopolist is not the best environmentalists best friend: An example

Mahenc, Philippe; Podesta, Marion - HAL - 2012

This letter addresses the second-degree price discrimination issue when a mo- nopolized product is tied with environmental quality. The monopolist may degrade environmental quality too much when marginal valuations of environmental quality and the good itself are positively related across consumers.

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Mimic Behavior in Home Waste-waters Management

Polomé, Philippe - HAL - 2013

We present results of a household-level survey on behaviors regarding refuses in the home waste-waters network. Interpreting survey results in a panel-data logit results show that most socio-economic and public good-related respondent's characteristics do not play a significant role in...

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A simple theory of the optimal number of immigrants

Chao, Chi-Chur; Hazari, Bharat R.; Laffargue, Jean-Pierre - HAL - 2008

This paper develops a simple model to explain two stylised facts about immigration. First, some countries have a low ratio of migrants in their population, while other wealthy countries have a high number of migrants. In fact such migrants are of the same order of magnitude as their domestic...

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