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Effective Punishment Needs Legitimacy

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  • Xiaoting Zheng
  • Puyan Nie

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  • Xiaoting Zheng & Puyan Nie, 2013. "Effective Punishment Needs Legitimacy," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 89(287), pages 522-544, December.
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