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This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game … with punishment in which subjects are given the opportunity to punish other group members (democratic punishment regime … punishment regime). We employ a within-subjects design where subjects experience both environments and control for order effects …
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People can become less cooperative when threatened with sanctions, and researchers have pointed to both 'intentions' and incentives as sources of this effect. This paper reports data from a novel experimental design aimed at determining the relative importance of intentions and incentives in...
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what you think others expect you to do has a zero causal effect on both reward and punishment decisions. We also find that …This paper addresses three questions: (1) When deciding on whether to reward or punish someone, how does how you think … others expect you to behave affect your decision? (2) Does it depend upon whether others expect you to reward them vs. punish …
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find that what you think others expect you to do has a zero causal effect on both reward and punishment decisions. We also …This paper addresses three questions: (1) When deciding on whether to reward or punish someone, how does how you think … others expect you to behave affect your decision? (2) Does it depend upon whether others expect you to reward them vs. punish …
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Scholars in economics and psychology have created a large literature studying reward, punishment and reciprocity. Labor …) profoundly alters worker reciprocity. In the absence of reputational concerns, workers tend to reward kind behavior and punish … markets constitute a popular application of this body of work, with particular emphasis on how reciprocity helps regulate …
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Using a standard trust game, we elicit trust and reciprocity measures in a representative sample of adult players in … countrymen versus migrants. In reciprocity, we find only marginally significant differences attributable to the nationality of …
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We report on several experiments on the optimal allocation of ownership rights. The experiments confirm the property rights approach by showing that the ownership structure affects relationship-specific investments and that the subjects achieve the most efficient ownership allocation starting...
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This paper surveys recent experimental and field evidence on the impact of concerns for fairness, reciprocity and …
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