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Gun for Hire : Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd Out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?
Andreoni, James - 2011
vigilante justice, as represented by peer-to-peer punishment, to delegated policing, as represented by the "hired gun" mechanism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125564
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Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment
Lacetera, Nicola - 2011
We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117886
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Leadership in Groups : A Monetary Policy Experiment
Blinder, Alan S. - 2010
In an earlier paper (Blinder and Morgan, 2005), we created an experimental apparatus in which Princeton University students acted as ersatz central bankers, making monetary policy decisions both as individuals and in groups. In this study, we manipulate the size and leadership structure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759844
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Democracy for Polarized Committees : The Tale of Blotto's Lieutenants
Casella, Alessandra - 2016
In polarized committees, majority voting disenfranchises the minority. Allowing voters to spend freely a fixed budget of votes over multiple issues restores some minority power. However, it also creates a complex strategic scenario: a hide-and-seek game between majority and minority voters that...
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Are Two Heads Better than One? : An Experimental Analysis of Group vs. Individual Decisionmaking
Blinder, Alan S.; Morgan, John - 2021
Two laboratory experiments - one a statistical urn problem, the other a monetary policy experiment - were run to test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247633
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Theft and Deterrence
Harbaugh, William T. - 2011
We report results from economic experiments of decisions that are best described as petty larceny, with high school and college students who can anonymously steal real money from each other. Our design allows exogenous variation in the rewards of crime, and the penalty and probability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124855
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Punishment and Cooperation in Stochastic Social Dilemmas
Xiao, Erte; Kunreuther, Howard - 2021
Previous findings on punishment have focused on environments in which the outcomes are known with certainty. In this … paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner … specified probabilistically under a transparent information condition. In particular, we study two types of punishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224395
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Social Learning and Selective Attention
Caplin, Andrew - 2015
Popularity is self reinforcing. The attention garnered by popular options propels further interest in them. Yet rather than blindly follow the crowd, most pay attention to how well these items match their tastes. We model this role of social learning in guiding selective attention and market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026798
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The Power of Asking : How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism
Andreoni, James - 2010
To understand the "pure" incentives of altruism, economic laboratory research on humans almost always forbids communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which clearly must influence choices. Charities, for example,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138083
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Avoiding the Ask : A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving
Andreoni, James - 2011
experiment during the Salvation Army's annual campaign. The familiar bell-ringers were placed at one or both of two main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117564