Ottone, Stefania; Ponzano, Ferruccio; Zarri, Luca - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia - 2008
Social norms are ubiquitous in human life. Their role is essential in allowing cooperation to prevail, despite the presence of incentives to free ride. As far as norm enforcement devices are concerned, it would be impossible to have widespread social norms if second parties only enforced them....