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Living in two neighborhoods : social interactions in the LAB
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2003
social interaction effects. Testing for such effects raises severe identification problems. We conduct an experiment that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507945
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Cooperation and punishment in public goods experiments
Fehr, Ernst; Gaechter, Simon - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781678
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298544
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Stay or flee? : probability versus severity of punishment in hit-and-run accidents
Castriota, Stefano; Tonin, Mirco - 2019
probability and the severity of punishment with reference to planned criminal activities. There are, however, also unplanned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120376
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Appropriating the commons : a theoretical explanation
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
In this paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without sanctioning possibilities inefficient excess appropriation is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398786
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Bad boys : how criminal identity salience affects rule violation
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015
We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity …. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519915
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Deterrence and age thresholds in punishment in British criminal law
Braakmann, Nils - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of three age thresholds in British criminal law on self-reported offending: the possibility of custody at age 15, the switch from juvenile to adult law at age 18 and the switch from young offender institutions to adult prisons at age 21. Using longitudinal data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113984
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Fighting mobile crime
Crinò, Rosario; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2019
Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956277
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Conditional Punishment
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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Guilt aversion and peer effects in crime: experimental and empirical evidence from Bangladesh
Shoji, Masahiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
I conducted an artefactual field experiment to identify whether guilt reduces crime, and how the crime reduction … sensitivity and belief. I found supporting evidence of changes in belief. My experiment is novel in that it develops an approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113251