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Do elections accelerate the COVID-19 pandemic? : evidence from a natural experiment
Palguta, Ján; Levínský, René; Škoda, Samuel - 2021
Elections define representative democracies, but also produce spikes in physical mobility if voters need to travel to electoral rooms. In this paper, we examine whether large-scale, in-person elections propagate the spread of COVID-19. We exploit a natural experiment from the Czech Republic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589175
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The impact of fine size and uncertainty on punishment and deterrence : theory and evidence from the laboratory
Feess, Eberhard; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schramm, … - 2015
of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347317
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The role of framing, inequity and history in a corruption game : some experimental evidence
Chaudhuri, Ananish; Paichayontvijit, Tirnud; Sbai, Erwann - In: Games 7 (2016) 2, pp. 1-24
the use of loaded language significantly reduces the incidence of bribery and increases the level of punishment …. Punishment of bribery leads to reduced bribery in future. The evidence suggests that this game captures essential features of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515620
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Normative perception of power abuse
Hoeft, Leonard; Mill, Wladislaw; Vostroknutov, Alexander - 2019
inappropriate. More importantly, victims of such abuse also start to believe that punishers' free-riding and punishment are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988328
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Abuse of power : an experimental investigation of the effects of power and transparency on centralized punishment
Hoeft, Leonard; Mill, Wladislaw - 2017
We investigate power abuse of a single punisher in a public-goods-game subject to variations in punishment power and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704779
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The value of punishment of free riders : a case study on the receiving fee system of the Japanese public broadcasting organization
Kakizawa, Hisanobu - 2017
Social preferences for the punishment of free riders are critical for generating cooperative behavior in human society …. Focusing on the receiving fees of Japan's public broadcaster, this study analyses how punishment of free riders, that is, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760399
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Effect of an information intervention on opioid prescribing : a preregistered nationwide randomized experiment
Ahomäki, Iiro; Böckerman, Petri; Pehkonen, Jaakko; … - 2024
We study the impact of an information intervention on opioid prescribing using a preregistered research design and comprehensive nationwide register data. The intervention involved a personal letter sent to all Finnish physicians who had prescribed oxycodone or fentanyl to a patient who had...
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Can we fight drugs using communication campaigns? : a framed field experiment
Ibanez, Marcela; Vasquez, Juanita - 2016
This paper uses a framed field experiment to test the effect of persuasive communication as a strategy in the fight against drugs in Colombia. Our design varies the salience and the degree of informativeness of the messages that participants receive, while highlighting particular negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436479
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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
The most famous element in Bentham's theory of punishment, the Panopticon Prison, expresses his view of the two … purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment … by manipulating how much information on punishment experienced by others is available to would-be offenders. Compared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270435
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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
The most famous element in Bentham's theory of punishment, the Panopticon Prison, expresses his view of the two … purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment … by manipulating how much information on punishment experienced by others is available to would-be offenders. Compared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935656