Taking punishment into your own hands: an experiment on the motivation underlying punishment
In a punishment experiment, we separate the demand for punishment in general from a possible demand to conduct punishment personally. Subjects experience an unfair split of their earnings from a real effort task and have to decide on the punishment of the person who determines the distribution. Firs...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book/Monograph Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Heidelberg
Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Heidelberg
May 25, 2010
|
| Series: | Discussion paper series / Universität Heidelberg, Department of Economics
No. 501 |
| In: |
Discussion paper series (no. 501)
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Resolving-System, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-106694 Resolving-System, Volltext: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/127318 Verlag, Volltext: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/10669 Verlag, Volltext: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/volltexte/2010/10669/pdf/duersch_mueller_2010_dp501.pdf 
|
| Author Notes: | Peter Duersch; Julia Müller |
| Summary: | In a punishment experiment, we separate the demand for punishment in general from a possible demand to conduct punishment personally. Subjects experience an unfair split of their earnings from a real effort task and have to decide on the punishment of the person who determines the distribution. First, it is established whether the allocator's payoff is reduced and, afterwards, subjects take part in a second price auction for the right to (physically) carry out the act of payoff reduction. This auction only resolves who will punish, not whether punishment takes place, so only subjects with a demand for personal punishment should bid. |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Online publiziert: 2010 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| Format: | Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader. |