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The effects of punishment in dynamic public-good games

Guererk, Oezguer; Rockenbach, Bettina; Wolff, Irenaeus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Considerable experimental evidence shows that although costly peer-punishment enhances cooperation in repeated public …-good games, heavy punishment in early rounds leads to average period payoffs below the non-cooperative equilibrium benchmark. In … fall prey to a poverty trap or, to avoid this, abstain from punishment altogether. We show that neither is the case …

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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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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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Can Violence Harm Cooperation? Experimental Evidence

De Luca, Giacomo; Sekeris, Petros; Spengler, Dominic - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

While folk theorems for dynamic renewable common pool resource games sustain cooperation as an equilibrium, the possibility of reverting to violence to appropriate the resource destroys the incentives to cooperate, because of the expectation of conflict when resources are sufficiently depleted....

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Ellsberg Paradox and Second-order Preference Theories on Ambiguity: Some New Experimental Evidence

Yang, Chun-Lei; Yao, Lan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We study the two-color problem by Ellsberg (1961) with the modification that the decision maker draws twice with replacement and a different color wins in each draw. The 50-50 risky urn turns out to have the highest risk conceivable among all prospects including the ambiguous one, while all...

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Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study

Hoppe, Eva I.; Schmitz, Patrick W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

cornerstone of contract theory. We have conducted an experiment with 720 participants to explore whether the theoretical insights …

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Black swan protection: an experimental investigation

Morone, Andrea; Ozdemir, Ozlem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This experimental study investigates insurance decisions in low-probability, high-loss risk situations. Results indicate that subjects consider the probability of loss (loss size) when they make buying decisions (paying decisions). Most individuals are risk averse with no specific threshold...

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