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Volkswirtschaftslehre

Psychological Foundations of Incentives

During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations. Yet, they constrained their...

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Volkswirtschaftslehre

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...

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