Arbeitspapier

Evolutionary norm enforcement

Applying an indirect evolutionary approach with endogenous preference formation, we show that a legal system can induce players to reward trust even if material incentives dictate to exploit trust. By analyzing the crowding out or crowding in of trustworthiness implied by various verdict rules, we can assess how a court influences the share of kept promises of truly trustworthy players who evolutionarily evolved as trustworthy and of opportunistic players who are only trustworthy if inspired by material incentives.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: SFB 373 Discussion Paper ; No. 1999,84

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Güth, Werner
Ockenfels, Axel
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes
(where)
Berlin
(when)
1999

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10046711
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Güth, Werner
  • Ockenfels, Axel
  • Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes

Time of origin

  • 1999

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