The joint benefits of observed and unobserved punishment : comment to unobserved punishment supports cooperation

Andreas Glöckner; Sebastian Kube; Andreas Nicklisch

Laboratory experiments by Fudenberg and Pathak (2010), and Vyrastekova, Funaki and Takeuch (2008) show that punishment is able to sustain cooperation in groups even when it is observed only in the end of the interaction sequence. Our results demonstrate that the real power of unobserved punishment is unleashed when combined with observable punishment. Providing both unobserved and observed punishment strongly enhances cooperation within groups - strikingly, even with less intense sanctioning. This surprising result underlines the importance of the coexistence of observed and unobserved sanctioning mechanisms in social dilemmas. -- Public Goods ; Unobserved Punishment ; Sanctioning Effectiveness

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Glöckner, Andreas ; Kube, Sebastian ; Nicklisch, Andreas
Publisher:	Bonn : Max Planck Inst. for Research on Collective Goods
Subject:	Öffentliche Güter \| Public goods \| Nichtkooperatives Spiel \| Noncooperative game \| Strafe \| Punishment \| Kooperation \| Cooperation \| Gefangenendilemma \| Prisoner's dilemma \| Experiment

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 20 S., 971 KB) Ill., graph. Darst.
Series:	Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. - Bonn : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2172002-2. - Vol. 2011,30
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/57483 [Handle]
Classification:	H41 - Public Goods ; C92 - Laboratory; Group Behavior ; H40 - Publicly Provided Goods. General
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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