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Hwang, Sung-Ha; Bowles, Samuel - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83 (2012) 3, pp. 330-341

feel hostility towards free riders and enjoy inflicting harm on them, the incentives provided by the anticipated punishment … altruism attenuates the punishment motive and thus may reduce the level of punishment inflicted on defectors, resulting in … contribution costs and punishment costs. The range over which altruism inhibits cooperation and reduces material payoffs is greater …

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Social background, cooperative behavior, and norm enforcement

Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 341-354

Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechanism have been documented in cross-cultural studies, recently. We present data which prove that stark...

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Fooling the Nice Guys: Explaining receiver credulity in a public good game with lying and punishment

Irlenbusch, Bernd; Ter Meer, Janna - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 321-327

situation. In a laboratory experiment, subjects play a public good game with punishment in which feedback on actual … inflated beliefs about the contribution of others. This, in turn, impacts their contribution and punishment decisions. …

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Voluntary contributions with redistribution: The effect of costly sanctions when one person's punishment is another's reward

Page, Talbot; Putterman, Louis; Garcia, Bruno - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 95 (2013) C, pp. 34-48

contributions, punishments and earnings change when punishment is in the form of fines the punisher distributes to other members of … her group. The linked punishment-reward set up is of theoretical interest and could represent simultaneous shifts of … social disapproval and approval. Conjectures that punishment will be better targeted, and that it will be more substantial …

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Social preferences can make imperfect sanctions work: Evidence from a public good experiment

Engel, Christoph - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014) C, pp. 343-353

against advantageous inequity. Using a linear public good with centralized punishment, I find that participants increase … against exploiting others, the less it matters whether punishment was deterrent. …

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Heterogeneity and cooperation: The role of capability and valuation on public goods provision

Kölle, Felix - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 109 (2015) C, pp. 120-134

provision of public goods when punishment is possible or not. We find that compared to homogeneous groups, asymmetric valuations …

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Crime, fertility, and economic growth: Theory and evidence

Neanidis, Kyriakos C.; Papadopoulou, Vea - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 91 (2013) C, pp. 101-121

This paper studies the link between crime and fertility and the way by which they jointly impact on economic growth. In … offenders face in escaping apprehension, increases both crime and fertility non-monotonically, giving rise to an ambiguous …-linear effects on both crime and fertility. At the same time, it reveals a negative effect on output growth. …

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The enemy you can’t see: An investigation of the disruption of dark networks

McBride, Michael; Hewitt, David - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 32-50

We examine the optimal disruption of dark (covert and illegal) networks. Of central importance is that an interventionist will generally have incomplete information about the dark network's architecture. We derive the optimal disruption strategy in a stylized model of dark network intervention...

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Guns and crime revisited

Guha, Brishti - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 94 (2013) C, pp. 1-10

these expenses unless the efficacy of joint (public and private) security expenses on combating crime encounters very … increases the tendency to keep cash on hand, and also reduces crime, provided that as private precautions increase, with … are consistent with some empirical trends in crime rates, policing, penalties and private precautions. …

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The impact of burden sharing rules on the voluntary provision of public goods

Kesternich, Martin; Lange, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 105 (2014) C, pp. 107-123

We investigate how burden sharing rules impact the voluntary provision of a public good which generates heterogeneous benefits to agents. We compare different rule-based contribution schemes where agents can first suggest a minimum provision level of the public good, before the smallest common...

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