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The Impact of Announcing Future Punishment Opportunities in a Public Goods Game

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  • Alex Child
  • Jamil Moorad
  • Martine Visser
  • Wisdom Akpalu

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We explore the effects of announcements of future punishment opportunities in public goods games. Announcements can influence subject behaviour, through changing expectations, before the institution is implemented (adjustment effect) or after implementation (adaptation effect). Our results indicate that announcements do not lead to significant adjustment effects, nor increased free-riding before implementation. Once punishment opportunities are […]

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  • Alex Child & Jamil Moorad & Martine Visser & Wisdom Akpalu, 2014. "The Impact of Announcing Future Punishment Opportunities in a Public Goods Game," Working Papers 484, Economic Research Southern Africa.
    • Handle: RePEc:rza:wpaper:484
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    Public Goods;

    JEL classification:

    • C9 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments
    • H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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