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The logic of costly punishment reversed : expropriation of free-riders and outsiders
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Hugh-Jones, David and Perroni, Carlo (2017) The logic of costly punishment reversed : expropriation of free-riders and outsiders. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 135 . pp. 112-130. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2017.01.006 ISSN 0167-2681.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.01.006
Abstract
Current literature views the punishment of free-riders as an under-supplied public good, carried out by individuals at a cost to themselves. It need not be so: often, free-riders’ property can be forcibly appropriated by a coordinated group. This power makes punishment profitable, but it can also be abused. It is easier to contain abuses, and focus group punishment on free-riders, in societies where coordinated expropriation is harder. Our theory explains why public goods are undersupplied in heterogenous communities: because groups target minorities instead of free-riders. In our laboratory experiment, outcomes were more efficient when coordination was more difficult, while outgroup members were targeted more than ingroup members, and reacted differently to punishment.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Free rider problem (Economics), Public goods, Willingness to pay | ||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier BV * North-Holland | ||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0167-2681 | ||||||||||
| Official Date: | March 2017 | ||||||||||
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| Volume: | 135 | ||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 112-130 | ||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jebo.2017.01.006 | ||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 February 2017 | ||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 July 2018 | ||||||||||
| Funder: | University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), Network for Integrated Behavioural Science (NIBS) | ||||||||||
| Grant number: | ES/K002201/1 (CAGE), (NIBS) |
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