Unobserved punishment supports cooperation

Costly punishment can facilitate cooperation in public-goods games, as human subjects will incur costs to punish non-cooperators even in settings where it is unlikely that they will face the same opponents again. Understanding when and why it occurs is important both for the design of economic insti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fudenberg, Drew, Pathak, Parag
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61665
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8621-3864

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