Network architecture, cooperation and punishment in public good experiments
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Network Architecture, Cooperation and Punishment in Public Good Experiments∗
Following Fehr and Gäechter (2000), a large and growing number of experiments show that public goods can be provided at high levels when mutual monitoring and costly punishment are allowed. Nearly all experiments, however, study monitoring and punishment in a complete network where all subjects can monitor and punish each other. The architecture of social networks becomes important when subject...
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عنوان ژورنال: Review of Economic Design
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1434-4742,1434-4750
DOI: 10.1007/s10058-012-0120-z