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Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments
Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles N.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Experimental studies of social dilemmas have shown that while the existence of a sanctioning institution improves cooperation within groups, it also has a detrimental impact on group earnings in the short run. Could the introduction of pre-play threats to punish have enough of a beneficial...
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Individual Responsibility and the Funding of Collective Goods
Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Villeval, Marie Claire; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
When a deficit occurs in the funding of collective goods, it is usually covered by raising the amount of taxes or by rationing the supply of the goods. This article compares the efficiency of these institutions. We report the results of a 2x2 experiment based on a game in the first stage of...
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Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game
Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2014
We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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Ambiguity on audits and cooperation in a public goods game
Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - In: European Economic Review 74 (2015) C, pp. 146-162
We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the other group members is centrally sanctioned and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game
Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739419
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Ambiguity on audits and cooperation in a public goods game
Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2014
We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739568
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Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas: An Experiment with Police Commissioners
Dickinson, David; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2014
Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes...
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Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas: An Experiment with Police Commissioners
Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083206
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Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas: An Experiment with Police Commissioners
Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, Daivd; Villeval, Marie Claire - Department of Economics, Appalachian State University - 2014
Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or rewards differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010907204
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Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving
Garcia, Thomas; Massoni, Sebastien; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2019
A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that … individuals use this ambiguity strategically as a moral wiggle room to act less generously without feeling guilty. Such excuse …-driven behavior is more pronounced when the costs of a donation – rather than its benefits – are ambiguous. However, the …
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