Economics - Research Publications

Permanent URI for this collection

http://hdl.handle.net/11343/417

Filters

2007 1
1
Reset filters

Settings
Statistics
Citations
Author: NIKIFORAKIS, NIKOLAOS × Author: NORMANN, HANS-THEO ×

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
  • Item
    Thumbnail Image
    Asymmetric enforcement of cooperation in a social dilemma
    Nikiforakis, Nikos ; NORMANN, HANS-THEO ; Wallace, Brian ( 2007-01)
    The imposition of sanctions is one of the most common means of enforcing cooperation indecentralized interactions. Typically, agents are asymmetric in the sense that each has a differentsanctioning power. Using a public-good experiment we analyze such a decentralizedpunishment institution in which agents are asymmetric. The asymmetric punishment institutionprevents the decay of cooperation towards the non-cooperative equilibrium level. Strongagents contribute less to the public good, but punish more than weak agents. At the aggregatelevel, we observe remarkable similarities between outcomes in asymmetric and symmetricpunishment institutions.