What norms trigger punishment?

Experimental Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 272-288

  Carpenter, Jeffrey ^a,b   Matthews, Peter Hans ^a  

^a MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Research Fellow   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experiment; Norm enforcement; Public good; Punishment; Social norm

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349808662     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-009-9214-z     Document Type: Article

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