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Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an … individual are on average significantly positively proportional to other members’ punishment decisions to that individual. …

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Cumplimiento fiscal y bienes públicos: ¿Son realmente compatibles?

Sour, Laura - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

results of an experiment administered in the United States reported by Alm, Jackson and McKee (1992). The results for both …

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Perfect-Substitutes, Best-Shot, and Weakest-Link Contests between Groups

Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This experiment investigates contests between groups. Each group has one strong player, with a higher valuation for the …

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Recognizing Contributors: An Experiment on Public Goods

Samek, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We experimentally investigate the impact of recognizing contributors on public good contributions. We vary recognizing all, highest or lowest contributors. Consistent with previous studies, recognizing all contributors significantly increases contributions relative to the baseline. Recognizing...

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Does Public Good Provision Determine Incumbent’s Fate? Evidence from India

Paul, Saumik; Denzau, Arthur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In this paper we empirically examine whether public facilities like providing primary school, medical clinics, electricity etc help incumbents to stay in power. Specifically, we analyze the parliamentary election outcomes in 483 constituents in rural India from 1971 to 1991. This study is based...

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Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments

Fehr, Ernst; Gaechter, Simon - CESifo - 1999

This paper provides evidence that free riders are heavily punished even if punishment is costly and does not provide … punished. As a consequence, the existence of an opportunity for costly punishment causes a large increase in cooperation levels … because potential free riders face a credible threat. We show, in particular, that in the presence of a costly punishment …

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Does Modernization Improve Performance: Evidence from Indian Police

Kumar, Surender; Kumar, Sudesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper aims to measure the role of police modernization scheme in its performance in crime repression. We use output distance function as an analytical tool and estimate it using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) framework in a ‘single stage’. We find that the police modernization...

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Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from India

Kumar, Surender - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper empirically examines the causality between crime rates and economic growth using state level data in India. A reduced form equation has been estimated using instrumental variable approach to correct for joint endogeneity between crime and economic growth. Higher crimes may reduce...

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Women labour force participation and domestic violence: Evidence from India

Paul, Sohini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Domestic violence is recognised as a serious violation of women’s basic rights. Conventional economic models of domestic violence suggest that higher participation by women in the labour force leads to a decrease in domestic violence. In this paper, we study the relationship between women...

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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Gaechter, Simon; Renner, Elke - CESifo - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people’s behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...

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