Does stake size matter for cooperation and punishment?

Economics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 508-511

  Kocher, Martin G ^a,b   Martinsson, Peter ^c   Visser, Martine ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Experiment; Public goods; Punishment; Stake size

Indexed keywords

EID: 43849087536     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.09.048     Document Type: Article

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