What Makes Law to Change Behavior? An Experimental Study

Review of Law and Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 447-475

  Romaniuc, Rustam ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Lameta and University of Montpellier 1   (France)

Author keywords

conditional cooperation; incentives; public goods; sanctions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977483430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15555879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/rle-2015-0045     Document Type: Article

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