Selfish punishers

Leonard Hoeft and Wladislaw Mill

Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 157, issue C, 41-44

Abstract: We show that a second-party punisher forces his peers to contribute to a public good while contributing significantly less himself. This effect increased over time and casts doubt on the prevalent prosocial interpretation of (designated) punishment behavior.

Keywords: Punishment; Public good; Experiment; Selfish (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 H41 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.05.022

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