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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005
in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343948
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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation
Egas, Martijn (contributor); Riedl, Arnold (contributor) - 2005
punishment ; collective action ; public goods ; internet experiment … in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003086450
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2021
in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318468
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Harnessing Reciprocity to Promote Cooperation and the Provisioning of Public Goods
Rand, David G.; Yoeli, Erez; Hoffman, Moshe - 2015
How can we maximize the common good? This is a central organizing question of public policy design, across political parties and ideologies. The answer typically involves the provisioning of public goods such as fresh air, national defense, and knowledge. Public goods are costly to produce but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014037089
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Conditional cooperation and the effect of punishment
Kirchkamp, Oliver; Mill, Wladislaw - 2018
We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … cooperation with punishment which leads to a decrease in conditional cooperation. The power to punish means more responsibility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864590
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The demand for punishment to promote cooperation among like-minded people
Bühren, Christoph; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2020
We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate … irrespective of punishment and therefore have a lower demand for a costly punishment institution than groups of like-minded free … riders, who are unable to cooperate without punishment. We also predict that the difference in the demand for punishment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012542999
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The demand for punishment to promote cooperation among like-minded people
Bühren, Christoph; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2021
We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate … irrespective of punishment and therefore have a lower demand for a costly punishment institution than groups of like-minded free … riders, who are unable to cooperate without punishment. We also predict that the difference in the demand for punishment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337734
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Choosing the carrot or the stick? : endogenous institutional choice in social dilemma situations
Sutter, Matthias; Haigner, Stefan; Kocher, Martin - 2008
; punishment ; reward ; endogenous institutional choice ; voting ; experiment … choice, groups typically vote for the reward option, even though punishment is actually more effective in sustaining high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731789
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Choosing the carrot or the stick? : endogenous institutional choice in social dilemma situations
Sutter, Matthias; Haigner, Stefan; Kocher, Martin - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003738422
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Do reciprocators exploit or resist moral wiggle room? : an experimental analysis
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015
experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether moral wiggle room also prevails, when reciprocity is a potential motivation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446176