Taking punishment into your own hands: An experiment on the motivation underlying punishment

Arbeitspapier

In a punishment experiment, we separate the demand for punishment in general from a possible demand to conduct punishment personally. Subjects experience an unfair split of their earnings from a real effort task and have to decide on the punishment of the person who determines the distribution. First, it is established whether the allocator's payoff is reduced and, afterwards, subjects take part in a second price auction for the right to (physically) carry out the act of payoff reduction. This auction only resolves who will punish, not whether punishment takes place, so only subjects with a demand for personal punishment should bid.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Discussion Paper Series ; No. 501

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
• Thema: personal punishment ; real effort task ; experiment ; auction ; desire to win ; Auktionstheorie ; Soziale Beziehungen ; Test

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Duersch, Peter ; Müller, Julia
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
• (wo): Heidelberg
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.11588/heidok.00010669
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/127318
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-106694
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ