According to economists, severe legal sanctions deter violations of the law. According to legal scholars, people may obey law backed by mild sanctions because of norm-activation. We experimentally investigate the effects of mild and severe legal sanctions in the provision of public goods. The...

We study a networked society where public good provision and access are both local and where selfish agents co-habit with others who follow Kantian imperatives. We find that the locations of the Kantians in the network play a nuanced role in determining aggregate free-riding and material...

This paper introduces a new mechanism through which positive externality spills over in a network. We find that the introduction of the new spillover mechanism plays a major role in reducing the set of Nash equilibrium though at the same time it increases the set of stable equilibria in a...