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Conditional cooperation and the effect of punishment
Kirchkamp, Oliver; Mill, Wladislaw - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864590
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Does willful ignorance deflect punishment? : an experimental study
Bartling, Björn; Engl, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764955
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Norms, emotions, and culture in human cooperation and punishment : theory and evidence
Dhami, Sanjit S.; Wei, Mengxing - 2023
contributions mechanism with punishment (VCMP). We eliminate 'dynamic economic linkages' between the two stages of our "modified …" VCMP to rule out other potential explanations. We use a beliefs-based model, rooted in psychological game theory, to derive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013494040
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"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message!" : unpacking the components of revenge
Molńar, András; Chaudhry, Shereen J.; Loewenstein, … - 2020
, preregistered experiment (N = 1,959) we demonstrate that consideration for transgressors' beliefs affects punishment decisions on … punishment decisions: Do punishers want to make sure that transgressors understand why they are being punished, and is this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012166019
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All it takes is one : the effect of weakest-link and summation aggregation on public good provision under threshold uncertainty
Carlsson, Frederik; Ek, Claes; Lange, Andreas - 2021
We report experimental evidence on the voluntary provision of public goods under threshold uncertainty. By explicitly comparing two prominent technologies, summation and weakest link, we show that uncertainty is particularly detrimental to threshold attainment under weakest link, where low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696938
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Why people obey the law : experimental evidence from the provision of public goods
Feld, Lars P.; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2002
According to economists, severe legal sanctions deter violations of the law. According to legal scholars, people may obey law backed by mild sanctions because of norm-activation. We experimentally investigate the effects of mild and severe legal sanctions in the provision of public goods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408944
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Taxation and market power
Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian; Müller, Wieland - 2009
, in line with economic theory, that firms with no market power are able to shift a high share of a tax burden on to … ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923092
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Combining "real effort" with induced effort costs : the ball-catching task
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2015
an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518803
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Pay few subjects but pay them well : cost-effectiveness of random incentive systems
March, Christoph; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony; Greiner, Ben; … - 2016
selection probability induce the monetary incentives in a large-scale Internet treatment. Two laboratory treatments complement … incentives. Our results suggest that cost-effective BRIS consist of high nominal payoffs and a small selection probability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500169
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Public goods provision with rent-extracting administrators
Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Grimm, Veronika; … - 2017
This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778679