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Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Punishment Regimes for Bribery
Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian; Yu, Gaoneng - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2012
symmetric and asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery, one may wonder which punishment strategy is more effective in curbing … design. The results show that, in both countries, with symmetric punishment recipients are less likely to grant the socially … undesirable favor, while bribers are more likely to report to the authorities with asymmetric punishment. In addition, when …
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Carry a big stick, or no stick at all An experimental analysis of trust and capacity of punishment
Calabuig, Vicente; Fatas, Enrique; Olcina, Gonzalo; … - Estructura de Recerca Interdisciplinar Comportament … - 2013
We investigate the effect of punishment in a trust game with endowment heterogeneity in which the investor may punish … the allocator at a cost. Our results indicate that the effect of the punishment crucially depends on the investor …’s capacity of punishment, that is measured in our experiment by the proportion of the allocator’s payoffs that the investor can …
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The Big Carrot: High Stake Incentives Revisited
Brañas Garza, Pablo; García Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper provides an empirical demonstration of high stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. It shows that, when both positive (carrot) and negative (stick) incentives are available, the former are more effective than the latter. Specifically, it is shown that beliefs in heaven...
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The Big Carrot:High-Stakes Incentives Revisited
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2009
Using an international dataset of about 35,000 subjects, this paper provides an empirical example of high-stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. First, we show that incentives (based on absolute belief) play a salient role in religious performance. Second, we find that, when both...
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The Big Carrot: High Stake Incentives Revisited
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2008
This paper provides an empirical demonstration of high stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. It shows that, when both positive (carrot) and negative (stick) incentives are available, the former are more effective than the latter. Specifically, it is shown that beliefs in heaven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163433
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The Big Carrot: High Stake Incentives Revisited
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper provides an empirical demonstration of high stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. It shows that, when both positive (carrot) and negative (stick) incentives are available, the former are more effective than the latter. Specifically, it is shown that beliefs in heaven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661888
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Needs, Modes and Efficiency of Economic Organizations and Public Interventions in Agriculture
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
There has been a fundamental development in theory and understanding of market, private, collective and public organizations in recent years. This paper incorporates achievements of the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law,...
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Reducing within-group overconfidence through group identity and between-group confidence judgments
Brookins, Philip; Lucas, Adriana; Ryvkin, Dmitry - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 44 (2014) C, pp. 1-12
Individuals belonging to a social group make judgments about their relative standing within the group as well as about the relative standing of their group among other groups. On average, individuals exhibit overconfidence bias in both types of judgments in a variety of settings. We hypothesize,...
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Reducing within-group overconfidence through group identity and between-group confidence judgments
Brookins, Philip; Lucas, Adriana; Ryvkin, Dmitry - Department of Economics, Florida State University - 2014
Overconfidence in one's relative performance within a group is a wide-spread phenomenon. Similar to individual (or within-group) overconfidence, it was also shown that individuals are, on average, overconfident about the performance of their group relative to other groups. We hypothesize that...
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Fooling the Nice Guys: Explaining receiver credulity in a public good game with lying and punishment
Irlenbusch, Bernd; Ter Meer, Janna - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 321-327
situation. In a laboratory experiment, subjects play a public good game with punishment in which feedback on actual … inflated beliefs about the contribution of others. This, in turn, impacts their contribution and punishment decisions. …
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