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We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … cooperation with punishment which leads to a decrease in conditional cooperation. The power to punish means more responsibility …
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, in line with economic theory, that firms with no market power are able to shift a high share of a tax burden on to …
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This paper studies whether people can avoid punishment by remaining willfully ignorant about possible negative … consequences of their actions for others. We employ a laboratory experiment, using modified dictator games in which a dictator can …
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Real-effort experiments are frequently used when examining a response to incentives. For any particular real …-effort task to be well-suited for such an exercise, subjects' cost for exerting effort must, for the range of incentives … nonmonetary incentives. However, despite its increasing use, a simple between-subject examination of the slider task's response to …
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This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent …
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We study the spillover effects of minimum wages in a laboratory experiment. In a bilateral firm-worker bargaining …
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an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort …
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In this paper we explore the relationship between an equitable distribution of the cost shares in public-good provision on the one hand and the core property of an allocation on the other. In particular we show that it is an inhomogeneous distribution of cost shares that motivates some coalition...
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rather than a risk-less pie. Contrary to theory, the comparatively less risk adverse residual claimants benefit the most …
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We study how intelligence and personality affect the outcomes of groups, focusing on repeated interactions that provide the opportunity for profitable cooperation. Our experimental method creates two groups of subjects who have different levels of certain traits, such as higher or lower levels...
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