Arbeitspapier

Public goods provision and sanctioning in privileged groups

In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its members find it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherent asymmetric nature may make the enforcement of cooperative behavior through informal sanctioning harder to accomplish. In this paper we experimentally investigate public good provision in normal and privileged groups with and without decentralized punishment. We find that compared to normal groups, privileged groups are relatively ineffective in using costly sanctions to increase everyone's contributions. Punishment is less targeted towards strong free-riders and they exhibit a weaker increase in contributions after being punished. Thus, we show that privileged groups are not as privileged as they initially seem.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2063

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Public Goods
Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
Thema
Öffentliches Gut
Trittbrettfahrerverhalten
Informelle Gruppe
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Reuben, Ernesto
Riedl, Arno
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2007

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Reuben, Ernesto
  • Riedl, Arno
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2007

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