eprintid: 10669
rev_number: 9
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/01/06/69
datestamp: 2010-05-28 18:54:57
lastmod: 2016-01-18 07:53:03
status_changed: 2012-08-15 08:53:29
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Duersch, Peter
creators_name: Müller, Julia
title: Taking punishment into your own hands: An experiment on the motivation underlying punishment
ispublished: pub
subjects: 330
divisions: 181000
keywords: personal punishment , real effort task , experiment , auction , desire to win
abstract: 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.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
class_scheme: jel
class_labels: D03., C92
date: 2010
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00010669
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0501
ppn_swb: 627093787
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-106694
language: eng
bibsort: DUERSCHPETTAKINGPUNI2010
full_text_status: public
citation:   Duersch, Peter ; Müller, Julia  (2010) Taking punishment into your own hands: An experiment on the motivation underlying punishment.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/10669/1/duersch_mueller_2010_dp501.pdf