Mixing the carrots with the sticks: Third party punishment and reward

Experimental Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-23

  Nikiforakis, Nikos ^a,b,c   Mitchell, Helen ^d  

^a GATE Lyon Saint Etienne   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE GOODS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Norm enforcement; Punishment; Reward; Social norms; Third party

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895905806     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-013-9354-z     Document Type: Article

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