Trigger-happy or precisionist? On demand for monitoring in peer-based public goods provision
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Public goods; Peer punishment; Costly monitoring;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
- D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
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