title: Taking punishment into your own hands: An experiment on the motivation underlying punishment
creator: Duersch, Peter
creator: Müller, Julia
subject: 330
subject: 330 Economics
description: In a punishment experiment, we separate the demand for punishment in general from a possible demand to conduct punishment personally. Subjects experience an unfair split of their earnings from a real effort task and have to decide on the punishment of the person who determines the distribution. First, it is established whether the allocator's payoff is reduced and, afterwards, subjects take part in a second price auction for the right to (physically) carry out the act of payoff reduction. This auction only resolves who will punish, not whether punishment takes place, so only subjects with a demand for personal punishment should bid.
date: 2010
type: Working paper
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/10669/1/duersch_mueller_2010_dp501.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00010669
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-106694
identifier:   Duersch, Peter ; Müller, Julia  (2010) Taking punishment into your own hands: An experiment on the motivation underlying punishment.  [Working paper]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/10669/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng