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Obedience to Rules with Mild Sanctions: The Roles of Peer Punishment and Voting
Chen, Josie I - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
study the impact of non-deterrent formal sanctions on voluntary contributions to a public good in a laboratory experiment …Governments sometimes promote rules backed by sanctions too weak to make obedience privately optimal. Factors that may … help make such rules effective include the presence of informal sanctions by peers, and implementation through voting. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107459
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Institution design in social dilemmas: How to design if you must?
Rockenbach, Bettina; Wolff, Irenaeus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Considerable experimental evidence has been collected on how to solve the public-good dilemma. In a 'first generation' of experiments, this was done by presenting subjects with a pre-specified game out of a huge variety of rules. A 'second generation' of experiments introduced subjects to two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005108453
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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 an environment where past payoffs determine...
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A Dynamic Model of Belief-Dependent Conformity to Social Norms
Sontuoso, Alessandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Human conduct is often guided by “conformist preferences”, which thrive on behavioral expectations within a society, with conformity being the act of changing one’s behavior to match the purported beliefs of others. Despite a growing research line considering preferences for a fair outcome...
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Peer punishment with third-party approval in a social dilemma game
Tan, Fangfang; Xiao, Erte - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
of the implicated parties who propose the punishment. In a prisoner's dilemma experiment, we find an independent third …
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Justification and Legitimate Punishment
Xiao, Erte; Tan, Fangfang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
laboratory experiment to examine how justification can combat profit-seeking punishment and promote the legitimacy of punishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109825
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Promoting Competition or Helping Less-Endowed? An Experiment on Collective Institutional Choices under Intra-Group Inequality
Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Unequally-distributed resources, whether people’s income or competence, are ubiquitous in our real world. Whether to promote competition or to lead to a more equal environment is often in question in societies or organizations. With heterogeneous endowments, we let subjects collectively choose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113335
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Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Diversity Measures on Provisioning of Basic Public Goods: Cross Country Assessment
Mahzab, Moogdho; Atiq, Mohsina; Devdariani, Nino - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Ethnic diversity and provision of public goods have long been understood to share a negative relationship. While there has been a concerted effort to define and measure ethnic diversity around the world, we are interested in analyzing the possible differences in these measures when it comes to...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260094
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Voluntary Contributions by Consent or Dissent
Tan, Jonathan H.W.; Breitmoser, Yves; Bolle, Friedel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
in dissent games. In our experiment, inexperienced subjects contribute high in consent games and low in dissent games …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552787