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Promoting cooperation : the distribution of reward and punishment power
Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2012
Recent work in experimental economics on the effectiveness of rewards and punishments for promoting cooperation mainly examines decentralized incentive systems where all group members can reward and/or punish one another. Many self-organizing groups and societies, however, concentrate the power...
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Play it again : partner choice, reputation building and learning in restarting, finitely-repeated dilemma games
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G. - 2013
can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by …
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Play it again : partner choice, reputation building and learning from finitely repeated dilemma games
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G. - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 127 (2017) 602, pp. 1069-1095
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The benefit of the doubt: willful ignorance and altruistic punishment
Stüber, Robert - In: Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic … 23 (2020) 3, pp. 848-872
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The benefit of the doubt : willful ignorance and altruistic punishment
Stüber, Robert - 2019
Altruistic punishment is often thought to be a major enforcement mechanism of social norms. I present experimental results from a modified version of the dictator game with third-party punishment, in which third parties can remain ignorant about the choice of the dictator. I find that a...
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Early refund bonuses increase successful crowdfunding
Cason, Timothy N.; Tabarrok, Alexander; Zubrickas, Robertas - 2021
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Incentive pay for policy-makers?
Britz, Volker; Ebrahimi, Afsoon; Gersbach, Hans - 2018 - This version: December 2018
We study how to efficiently motivate policy-makers to solve political multitask problems. Political multi-task problems typically have outcomes that are difficult to measure. Moreover, there are conflicts among citizens about optimal policies and the agents have the power to tax the citizens to...
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What makes law to change behavior? : an experimental study
Romaniuc, Rustam - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 12 (2016) 2, pp. 447-475
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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015
experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …
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Willingness to pay attention for others : do social preferences predict attentional contribution?
Rafai, Ismael; Toumi, Mira - In: Revue d'économie politique 128 (2018) 5, pp. 849-881
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