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Beware of broken windows! : first impressions in public-good experiments
Beckenkamp, Martin; Engel, Christoph; Glöckner, Andreas; … - 2009
; Impression Management ; Criminal Policy ; Public Good Experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003862429
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The short- and long-run effects of private law enforcement : evidence from university police
Heaton, Paul S.; Hunt, Priscillia E.; MacDonald, John M.; … - 2015
Over a million people in the United States are employed in private security and law enforcement, yet very little is known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472493
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The law & economics of private prosecutions in industrial revolution England
Koyama, Mark - In: Public choice 159 (2014) 1/2, pp. 277-298
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387987
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Punishment despite reasonable doubt : a public goods experiment with uncertainty over contributions
Grechenig, Christoffel; Nicklisch, Andreas; Thöni, … - 2010
Under a great variety of legally relevant circumstances, people have to decide whether or not to cooperate, when they face an incentive to defect. The law sometimes provides people with sanctioning mechanisms to enforce pro-social behavior. Experimental evidence on voluntary public good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952402
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Ride your luck! : a field experiment on lottery-based incentives for compliance
Fabbri, Marco; Barbieri, Paolo Nicola; Bigoni, Maria - 2016
We designed a natural-field experiment in the context of local public transportation to test whether rewards in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703325
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On probation : an experimental analysis
Engel, Christoph; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2009
. We therefore complement the field evidence by a lab experiment that isolates the definitional feature of probation: the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905816
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Turning the lab into Jeremy Bentham's panopticon : the effect of punishment on offenders and non-offenders
Engel, Christoph; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2010
purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment …. -- Punishment ; Deterrence ; Special Prevention ; Jeremy Bentham ; Experiment ; Public Good … prevention effect but show that the deterrence effect is smaller the more information on individual punishment is available …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935656
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International Treaty Enforcement as a Public Good : Institutional Deterrent Sanctions in International Environmental Agreements
Yang, Tseming - 2006
The problem of compliance with treaty obligations has been an area of active study in international environmental law because of its importance to the effectiveness of environmental treaties. This paper examines the problem of enforcement as an important and distinct component of compliance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058449
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The Role of Warnings in Regulation : Keeping Control with Less Punishment
Nyborg, Karine; Telle, Kjetil - 2003
Regulatory agencies frequently present violators with warnings, not pursuing prosecution if the violation ceases upon receipt of the warning. We show how such warnings may help regulators to keep control: Prosecution is costly for the regulator, and insufficient prosecution efforts yield low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075526
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Free riding in the lab and in the field
Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2010
We run a public good experiment in the field and in the lab with (partly) the same subjects. The field experiment is a … true natural field experiment as subjects do not know that they are exposed to an experimental variation. We can show that … subjects' behavior in the classic lab public good experiment correlates with their behavior in the structurally comparable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008823173