Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments |
This paper provides evidence that free riders are heavily punished even if punishment is costly and does not provide any material benefits for the punisher. The more free riders negatively deviate (...) |
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Third-Party Punishment and Social Norms |
We examine the characteristics and the relative strength of third party sanctions in a series of experiments. We hypothesize that egalitarian distribution norms and cooperation norms apply in our (...) |