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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012
abstain initially from theft and devote more resources to production, and subjects from countries with higher quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420268
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Trust and communication in a property rights dilemma
Ahn, T. K.; Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; … - 2016
diversion of resources from production unless the members of a given mini-society can abide by norms of non-theft or engage in … theft and most groups achieve much greater efficiency in the presence of communication. Ease of identifying who has engaged … in theft varies across the two communication treatments, but is of minor importance to the outcome. We find several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011669324
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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T.K.; … - 2012
abstain initially from theft and devote more resources to production, and subjects from countries with higher quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312222
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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis G.; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012
abstain initially from theft and devote more resources to production, and subjects from countries with higher quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289958
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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012
abstain initially from theft and devote more resources to production, and subjects from countries with higher quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290765
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Do non-strategic sanctions obey the law of demand? The demand for punishment in the voluntary contribution mechanism
Anderson, Christopher M.; Putterman, Louis - 2003
The prospect of receiving a monetary sanction for free riding has been shown to increase contributions to public goods. We ask whether the impulse to punish is unresponsive to the cost to the punisher, or whether, like other preferences, it interacts with prices to generate a conventional demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318879
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The provision of public goods with positive group interdependencies
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2010
This article examines the nature of human behavior in a nested social dilemma referred to as the Spillover Game. Players are divided into two groups with positive production interdependencies. Based on theoretically derived opportunistic, local, and global optima, our experimental results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267122
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State or nature? Formal vs. informal sanctioning in the voluntary provision of public goods
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2011
reason is that informal sanctions achieve more efficient outcomes than theory predicts, especially when the mechanism is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287730
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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma: An experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011
From the perspective of competitors, competition may be modeled as a prisoner's dilemma. Setting the monopoly price is cooperation, undercutting is defection. Jointly, competitors are better off if both are faithful to a cartel. Individually, profit is highest if only the competitor(s) is (are)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281843
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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are the correlations between experimental choices with indicators regarding the security of property, trust and the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322614