This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game …

, and a hierarchical mechanism team output is allocated by a team leader. Our experiment examines these mechanisms in both …

Many public goods can be provided at different spatial levels. Evidence from social identity theory and in … ‘neighborhood attachment' concept, we conduct an artefactual field experiment with 600 participants in a setting conducive to …

incentive to abstain from expending any effort and instead free-ride on the efforts of other members. Contest theory shows that … relative to the theory. We discuss potential explanations for such over-expenditure, including the utility of winning, bounded … support for the comparative statics predictions of the theory (with the exception of the “group size paradox”). Finally …

Many public goods can be provided at different spatial levels. Evidence from social identity theory and in … ‘neighborhood attachment’ concept, we conduct an artefactual field experiment with 600 participants in a setting conducive to …