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their sanctioning behavior on their belief about the frequency of norm violations. The more commonly a norm violation is …
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condition their sanctioning behavior on their belief about the frequency of norm violations. The more commonly a norm violation …
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condition their sanctioning behavior on their belief about the frequency of norm violations. The more commonly a norm violation …
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institutions. This paper shows how such institutions can emerge as a decentralized equilibrium. In a first stage, individuals … invest in a public enforcement technology. This technology generates a sanctioning system whose effectiveness depends on the …, the sanctioning system imposes penalties and rewards on deviations from the endogenous norm contribution. It is shown that …
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Monetary incentives are often considered as a way to foster contributions to public goods in society and firms. This paper investigates experimentally the effect of monetary incentives in the presence of a norm enforcement mechanism. Norm enforcement through peer punishment has been shown to be...
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Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...
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Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269498
-subject pool, police commissioners cooperate significantly more in both games. With exogenous institutions, police commissioners …
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We use a laboratory experiment to investigate the behavioral effects of obligations that are not backed by binding deterrent incentives. To implement such expressive law' we introduce different levels of very weakly incentivized, symmetric and asymmetric minimum contribution levels (obligations)...
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We use a laboratory experiment to investigate the behavioral effects of obligations that are not backed by binding deterrent incentives. To implement such 'expressive law' we introduce different levels of very weakly incentivized, symmetric and asymmetric minimum contribution levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274783