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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012

We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are the correlations between experimental choices with indicators regarding the security of property, trust and the quality of...

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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012

We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420268

Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis G.; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012

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Contribution-based grouping under noise

Nax, Heinrich H.; Murphy, Ryan O.; Duca, Stefano; … - In: Games 8 (2017) 4, pp. 1-23

Many real-world mechanisms are “noisy” or “fuzzy”, that is the institutions in place to implement them operate with non-negligible degrees of imprecision and error. This observation raises the more general question of whether mechanisms that work in theory are also robust to more...

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Social influences towards conformism in economic experiments

Heap, Shaun Hargreaves - 2014

This paper reviews some of the economic experimental evidence on conformism. There is nothing to match the early psychology experiments where subjects were often swayed by the behaviour of others to an extraordinary degree, but there is plenty of evidence of conformism. This seems built-in to...

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Social influences towards conformism in economic experiments

Heap, Shaun Hargreaves - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230894

Obligations and Cooperative Behaviour in Public Good Games

Galbiati, Roberto - 2008

Laws express rules of conduct ('obligations') enforced by the means of penalties and rewards ('incentives'). The role … of incentives in shaping individual behaviour has been largely analysed in the traditional economic literature. On the … any independent effect on cooperation in a public good game. The results show that, for given marginal incentives …

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