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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2016
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
CEPIE Working Paper No. 02/16
Verlag: 
Technische Universität Dresden, Center of Public and International Economics (CEPIE), Dresden
Zusammenfassung: 
Challenges in global politics like climate change, maritime piracy and fighting highly contagious diseases concern global public goods. The related policy decisions are mostly made by teams. In contrast, economic models of global public goods typically assume a single rational decision-maker. We use a laboratory experiment to compare team decisions to decisions of individuals in a finitely repeated public good game with and without a costly punishment option. Teams of three participants coordinate on decisions either by majority or unanimity rule. We find that in absence of a punishment option teams contribute more to the public good than individuals. With a punishment option subsequently to the contribution decision team treatments exhibit a less frequent use of anti-social punishment and lower levels of social as well as anti-social punishment. Extreme preferences for punishment are eliminated by the majority decision rule. Overall, team decisions are closer to the social optimum and teams yield higher net payoffs when compared to individuals.
Schlagwörter: 
Public Good
Group Decision-Making
Punishment
Experiment
Öffentliche Güter
Entscheidungsverhalten in Gruppen
Bestrafung
Experiment
JEL: 
C72
C92
H41
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