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Reward and punishment in a team contest

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  • Florian Heine
  • Martin Strobel

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A team contest entails both public good characteristics within the teams as well as a contest across teams. In an experimental study, we analyse behaviour in such a team contest when allowing to punish or to reward other team members. Moreover, we compare two types of contest environment: One in which two teams compete for a prize and another one in which we switch off the between-group element of the contest. We find that reward giving, as opposed to punishing, induces higher contributions to the team contest. Furthermore, expenditures on rewarding other co-players are significantly higher than those for punishing.

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  • Florian Heine & Martin Strobel, 2020. "Reward and punishment in a team contest," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(9), pages 1-25, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0236544
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236544
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