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dc.contributor.authorPage, Talboten
dc.contributor.authorPutterman, Louisen
dc.contributor.authorGarcia, Brunoen
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-25-
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-17T11:31:47Z-
dc.date.available2012-09-17T11:31:47Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/62650-
dc.description.abstractWe introduce new treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism with opportunities to punish, to see how contributions and punishments change when (a) each dollar lost in punishment must be awarded to another team member and/or when (b) obtaining information on individuals' contributions is a costly choice. Conjectures that tying punishments to rewards might reduce punishment of high contributors (perverse punishment) or increase overall punishing are not completely born out, but innovation (a) nonetheless succeeds in making the net punishment of high contributors much less common because they receive enough rewards to offset punishment. A surprise finding is that innovation (b) also decreases the incidence of misdirected punishment, since high contributors do more monitoring than low ones while low contributors do most of the perverse punishing. Both innovations raise both contributions and earnings relative to the familiar VCM-with-punishment treatment.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aBrown University, Department of Economics |cProvidence, RIen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWorking Paper |x2008-1en
dc.subject.jelC91en
dc.subject.jelH41en
dc.subject.jelD30en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordpublic goodsen
dc.subject.keywordcollective actionen
dc.subject.keywordexperiment, punishmenten
dc.titleGetting punishment right: Do costly monitoring or redistributive punishment help?-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn571838340en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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