Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/98457 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Jena Economic Research Papers No. 2013-043
Publisher: 
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
Two pairs of two participants each interact repeatedly in two structurally independent but informationally linked Prisoner´s Dilemma games. Neither pair receives feedback about past choices by their own partner but is fully informed about the choices by the other pair. Considering this as a four-person infinite horizon game allows for Folk-Theorem-like voluntary cooperation. We ask whether monitoring and indirect punishment with the help of others are comparable to direct monitoring and punishment in establishing and maintaining voluntary cooperation. The treatment effects we find are rather weak. Others´ monitoring of own activities is only an insufficient substitute for direct observability.
Subjects: 
experiment
monitoring
prisoner´ s dilemma
JEL: 
C73
C91
D82
D84
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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