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Dominance and Submission: Social Status Biases Economic Sanctions
von Essen, Emma; Ranehill, Eva - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2011
party punishment. Status is conveyed by surname; half of the third parties face dictators with a noble name and half face …’s decisions to use economic punishment, and that this holds true in situations where reputation or strategic concerns have no …
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State or Nature? Formal vs. Informal Sanctioning in the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2011
dilemmas. It is in the self-interest of voters and is often favorably contrasted with letting citizens take punishment into …
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Self-Organization for Collective Action: An Experimental Study of Voting on Formal, Informal, and No Sanction Regimes
Markussen, Thomas; Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2011
Entrusting the power to punish to a central authority is a hallmark of civilization. We study a collective action dilemma in which self-interest should produce a sub-optimal outcome absent sanctions for non-cooperation. We then test experimentally whether subjects make the theoretically optimal...
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Efficiency and Punishment in a Coordination Game: Voluntary Sanctions in the Minimum Effort Game
Lec, Fabrice Le; Rydval, Ondrej; Matthey, Astrid - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2014
one can assign costly punishment points to other group members in order to reduce their payoffs. We compare the effect of … this voluntary punishment possibility with the effect of ex post costless communication: in contrast to the punishment …
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Profit-seeking punishment corrupts norm obedience
Xiao, Erte - In: Games and Economic Behavior 77 (2013) 1, pp. 321-344
Punishment typically involves depriving violators of resources they own such as money or labor. These resources can … become revenue for authorities and thus motivate profit-seeking punishment. In this paper, we design a novel experiment to … provide direct evidence on the role punishment plays in communicating norms. Importantly, this allows us to provide …
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Social preferences can make imperfect sanctions work: Evidence from a public good experiment
Engel, Christoph - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014) C, pp. 343-353
against advantageous inequity. Using a linear public good with centralized punishment, I find that participants increase … against exploiting others, the less it matters whether punishment was deterrent. …
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Bargaining in the absence of property rights: An experiment
Bar-Gill, Oren; Engel, Christoph - 2015
The Coase theorem posits: If [1] property rights are perfect, [2] contracts are enforceable, [3] preferences are common knowledge, and [4] transaction costs are zero, then the initial alloca-tion of property rights only matters for distribution, not for efficiency. In this paper we claim that...
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Behavioral law and economics: Empirical methods
Engel, Christoph - 2013
Originally, behavioral law and economics was an exercise in exploring the implications of key findings from behavioral economics (and psychology) for the analysis and reform of legal institutions. Yet as the new discipline matures, it increasingly replaces foreign evidence by fresh evidence,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323847
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Fairness and persuasion: How stakeholder communication affects impartial decision making
Kleine, Marco; Langenbach, Pascal; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2014
We study experimentally whether and to what extent impartial decision makers are influenced by stakeholders´ fairness opinions in an allocation decision. The setting allows for different focal fairness rules to be considered. We compare communication treatments, in which one of the stakeholders...
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Partial coercion, conditional cooperation, and self-commitment in voluntary contributions to public goods
Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - 2011
In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation increase contributions to a public good. We are especially interested in the behavior of the non-coerced populations. The main finding is that in our setting conditional...
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