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Riedel, Nadine; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 35 (2013) C, pp. 67-80

.e., minimum contribution levels, in a repeated public goods experiment. Our main finding is that, in an environment with …

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Asymmetric Obligations

Riedel, Nadine; Schildberg-Hoerisch, Hannah - Saïd Business School, Oxford University - 2011

We use a laboratory experiment to investigate the behavioral effects of obligations that are not backed by binding … and asymmetric minimum contribution levels (obligations) in a repeated public goods experiment. The results provide …

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Achieving Compliance when Legal Sanctions are Non-Deterrent

Tyran, Jean-Robert; Feld, Lars P. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2005

Law backed by non-deterrent sanctions (mild law) has been hypothesized to achieve compliance because of norm activation. We experimentally investigate the effects of mild law in the provision of public goods by comparing it to severe law (deterrent sanctions) and no law. The results show that...

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Cooperation and Authoritarian Norms: An experimental study in China

Vollan, Björn; Zhou, Yexin; Landmann, Andreas; Hu, Biliang - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013

There is ample evidence for a “democracy premium”. Laws that have been implemented via election lead to a more cooperative behavior compared to a top-down approach. This has been observed using field data and laboratory experiments. We present evidence from Chinese students and workers who...

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