Punishment, counterpunishment and sanction enforcement in a social dilemma experiment

Economic Theory

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 145-167

  Denant Boemont, Laurent ^b   Masclet, David ^b,c   Noussair, Charles N ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c CIRANO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Counter punishment Information; Public goods; Sanction enforcement

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547231217     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-007-0212-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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