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What can facilitate cooperation : fairness, ineaulity aversion, punishment, norms or trust?
Brandt, Urs Steiner - 2008
Almost all economic and public choice models assume that all people are exclusively pursuing their own material self-interests and do not care about "social" goals per se. Several (laboratory) experiments address the question of the general validity of this assumption. A consistent conclusion...
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Punish and perish?
Antoci, Angelo; Zarri, Luca - 2011
framework where punishment ("stick") and rewarding ("carrot") options are available, here we show analytically that the presence … of cooperators who don't punish in the population makes altruistic punishment evolutionarily weak. We show that … cooperation breaks down and strong reciprocity is maladaptive if costly punishment means "punishing defectors" and, even more so …
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Do rewards work? : evidence from the randomization of public works
Carrillo, Paul E.; Castro, Edgar; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2017
This paper evaluates the effect of positive inducements on tax behavior by exploiting a natural experiment in which a …
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Forgive or punish : the impact of altruistic supervision on shirking
Dughera, Stefano; Marciano, Alain - 2020
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Avoidance policies : a new conceptual framework
Ulph, David - 2009
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Jury discrimination in criminal trials
Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick J.; Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2010
This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a unique dataset of all felony trials in Sarasota County, Florida between 2004 and 2009. We utilize a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composition of the jury pool to isolate quasi-random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665132
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"Thou shalt not covet ..." : prohibitions, temptation and moral values
Cervellati, Matteo; Vanin, Paolo - 2010
We propose a theory studying temptation in presence of both externally and internally sanctioned prohibitions. Moral values that (internally) sanction prohibited actions and their desire may increase utility by reducing self-control costs, thereby serving as partial commitment devices. We apply...
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It is never too late : optimal penalty for investment delay in Italian public procurement contracts
D'Alpaos, Chiara; Moretto, Michele; Valbonesi, Paola; … - 2009
We provide a general framework in which to determine the optimal penalty fee inducing the contractor to respect the contracted delivery date in public procurement contracts (PPCs). We do this by developing a real option model that enables us to investigate the contractor's value of investment...
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Crime, punishment, and schooling decisions : evidence from Colombian adolescents
Ibáñez, Ana María; Rodríguez, Catherine; Zarruk, David - 2013
This paper uses a natural policy experiment to estimate how changes in the costs of engaging in criminal activity may … in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, crime rates in Colombian municipalities …
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The effects of pre-trial detention on conviction, future crime, and employment : evidence from randomly assigned judges
Dobbie, Will; Goldin, Jacob; Yang, Crystal - 2016
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