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Carry a big stick, or no stick at all An experimental analysis of trust and capacity of punishment
Calabuig, Vicente; Fatas, Enrique; Olcina, Gonzalo; … - Estructura de Recerca Interdisciplinar Comportament … - 2013
We investigate the effect of punishment in a trust game with endowment heterogeneity in which the investor may punish … the allocator at a cost. Our results indicate that the effect of the punishment crucially depends on the investor …’s capacity of punishment, that is measured in our experiment by the proportion of the allocator’s payoffs that the investor can …
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Experimental criminal law : a survey of contributions from law, economics and criminology
Engel, Christoph - 2016
In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in …
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On probation: an experimental analysis
Engel, Christoph; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2009
less to a joint project; punishment cost is higher; efficiency is lower; inequity is higher. While experimental subjects … themselves do trust the institution less if punishment does not become effective immediately. …
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Experimental criminal law: A survey of contributions from law, economics and criminology
Engel, Christoph - 2016
In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522112
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On Probation. An Experimental Analysis
Engel, Christoph; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2009
less to a joint project; punishment cost is higher; efficiency is lower; inequity is higher. While experimental subjects … themselves do trust the institution less if punishment does not become effective immediately. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567631
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Money Talks? An Experimental Study of Rebate in Reputation System Design
Li, Lingfang; Xiao, Erte - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Reputation systems that rely on feedback from traders are important institutions for helping sustain trust in markets, while feedback information is usually considered a public good. We apply both theoretical models and experiments to study how raters' feedback behavior responds to different...
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Group Membership, Team Preferences, and Expectations (A new version of this paper is available as CEEL WP 3-12)
Guala, Francesco; Mittone, Luigi; Ploner, Matteo - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2009
Group membership increases cooperation in social dilemma games, altruistic donation in dictator games, and fair offers in ultimatum games. While the empirical study of group action has grown rapidly over the years, there is little agreement at the theoretical level on exactly why and how group...
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Strategic Choices for Redistribution and the Veil of Ignorance: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Gerber, Anke; Nicklisch, Andreas; Voigt, Stefan - 2013
We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution by feet and then learn their productivity and invest. We vary the individuals' information about their productivities at the time when they choose a distribution rule and find...
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Is voting for a cartel a sign of cooperativeness?
Gillet, Joris - In: Games 12 (2021) 2, pp. 1-10
This paper tests the hypothesis that a (partial) reason why cartels - collective but costly and non-binding price agreements - lead to higher prices in a Bertrand oligopoly could be because of a selection effect: decision-makers who are willing to form price agreements are more likely to be less...
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The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping
Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different...
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