2019
DOI: 10.1561/105.00000084
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The Dose Does it: Punishment and Cooperation in Dynamic Public-Good Games

Abstract: We experimentally study the role of punishment for cooperation in dynamic public-good problems where past payoffs determine present contribution capabilities. The beneficial role of punishment possibilities for cooperation is fragile: successful cooperation hinges on the presence of a common understanding of how punishment should be used. If high-contributors punish too readily, the group likely gets on a wasteful path of punishment and retaliation. If punishment is administered more patiently, even initially … Show more

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“…See e.g Battaglini et al (2016),Rockenbach and Wolff (2017). orEichenseer and Moser (2019).2 The VCA is a (charitable) dictator game where each participant is a dictator dividing her budget between herself and some organization linked to the reduction of CO2 emissions Eckel and Grossman (1996).…”
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“…See e.g Battaglini et al (2016),Rockenbach and Wolff (2017). orEichenseer and Moser (2019).2 The VCA is a (charitable) dictator game where each participant is a dictator dividing her budget between herself and some organization linked to the reduction of CO2 emissions Eckel and Grossman (1996).…”
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confidence: 99%