Cooperation under punishment: Imperfect information destroys it and centralizing punishment does not help
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Keywords
Public Goods; cooperation; centralized punishment; imperfect information; decentralized punishment; peer to peer punishment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
- K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2013-06-24 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-CDM-2013-06-24 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-CTA-2013-06-24 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-EVO-2013-06-24 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2013-06-24 (Experimental Economics)
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