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In this paper we replicate and extend the experiment of Fehr and Gaechter (2000) that analyzes the effect of an … 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 …
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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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This paper reports the results from a real-effort team production experiment, where best performers can impose either …
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from an experiment measuring the demand for reward and punishment by 'unaffected' third parties, separately and jointly. We … laboratory studies, the demand for punishment and reward are studied separately from one another. This paper presents the results … find that the demand for costly punishment is substantially lower when individuals are also given the ability to reward …
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We present the results of an experiment that explores the sanctioning behavior of individuals who experience a social … third parties, and punish low contributors, even when punishment is costly to the sanctioner. When there are five rounds of …
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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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tax compliance decisions, we have conducted a laboratory experiment in which we introduced two types of inequities. The …
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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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We investigate the dynamics of cooperation in public good games when contributions to the public good are immediately redistributed across contributors (intra-temporal transfers) and when contributions to the public good by the current group are transferred over time to a future group...
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We evaluate the impact of three auction mechanisms--the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) mechanism, the second-price auction (SPA), and the random nth-price auction (NPA)--in the measurement of private willingness-to-pay and willingness-to-accept for a pure public good. Our results show that the...
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