State or nature? Endogenous formal versus informal sanctions in the voluntary provision of public goods

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Kenju Kamei, Louis Putterman, Jean-Robert Tyran]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Experimental Economics, 18/1(2015-03-01), 38-65
Format:
Artikel (online)
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520 3 |a We investigate the endogenous formation of sanctioning institutions supposed to improve efficiency in the voluntary provision of public goods. Our paper parallels Markussen et al. (Rev Econ Stud 81:301-324, 2014) in that our experimental subjects vote over formal versus informal sanctions, but it goes beyond that paper by endogenizing the formal sanction scheme. We find that self-determined formal sanctions schemes are popular and efficient when they carry no up-front cost, but as in Markussen et al. informal sanctions are more popular and efficient than formal sanctions when adopting the latter entails such a cost. Practice improves the performance of sanction schemes: they become more targeted and deterrent with learning. Voters' characteristics, including their tendency to engage in perverse informal sanctioning, help to predict individual voting. 
540 |a Economic Science Association, 2014 
690 7 |a Sanction  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Social dilemma  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Public goods  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Voluntary contribution mechanism  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Punishment  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Experiment  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Kamei  |D Kenju  |u Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Putterman  |D Louis  |u Department of Economics, Box B, Brown University, 02912, Providence, RI, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Tyran  |D Jean-Robert  |u University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria  |4 aut 
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950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Putterman  |D Louis  |u Department of Economics, Box B, Brown University, 02912, Providence, RI, USA  |4 aut 
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