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of the implicated parties who propose the punishment. In a prisoner's dilemma experiment, we find an independent third …This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is a third party independent … party vetoes not only punishment to the cooperators but punishment to the defectors as well. Compared with the case when the …
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The paper presents a theoretical model with bureaucratic corruption where bribe income can leak out of an economy. In … for entrepreneurship by maximizing the welfare of the economy. We show that the corruption persists at the equilibrium … in low prosperity economies the control of leakage may induce higher level of corruption, while the opposite is true in …
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potentially divisible resource. We design an experiment to compare individuals’ decisions across three resource allocation …
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A contest is a situation in which individuals or groups expend costly resources while competing to win a specific prize. The variety of economic situations that can be described as contests has attracted enormous attention from economic theorists. Despite the extensive theoretical research of...
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In this paper we present an experiment in which we test the effects of sequential entry on the stability of collusion …
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Standard theoretical prediction is that rational economic agents participating in rent-seeking contests should engage in socially inefficient behavior by exerting costly efforts. Experimental studies find that the actual efforts of participants are significantly higher than predicted and that...
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, despite the absence of free-riding incentives. In a laboratory experiment, subjects indeed under-contribute relative to …
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The standard theoretical description of rent-seeking contests is that of rational individuals or groups engaging in socially inefficient behavior by exerting costly effort. Experimental studies find that the actual efforts of participants are significantly higher than predicted in the models...
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This experiment investigates contests between groups. Each group has one strong player, with a higher valuation for the …
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contest experiments: (i) overbidding relative to the standard Nash equilibrium prediction and (ii) heterogeneous behavior of … ex-ante symmetric contestants. Based on the sample of contest experiments that we review, the median overbidding rate is …
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