Paying to Punish on a free ride: member and nonmember punishments in voluntary coalitions
- ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Dave McEvoy Ph.D., Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- Appalachian State University (ASU )
- Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/
Abstract: We explore public good experiments in which players have the opportunity to form cooperative coalitions. The decision to join a coalition is voluntary as is a member’s decision to comply with the terms of the coalition. An informal enforcement mechanism is examined in which coalition members and nonmembers can impose costly punishments on one another. We find that when punishments are purely voluntary, coalition members and freeriding nonmembers are equally likely to punish noncompliant coalition members. Moreover, the extent to which nonmembers punish noncompliance does not change regardless of whether the members can credibly enforce compliance within their coalition.
Paying to Punish on a free ride: member and nonmember punishments in voluntary coalitions
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- Publication
- McEvoy, David. (2012). Paying to Punish on a Free Ride: Member and Nonmember Punishments in Voluntary Coalitions. Applied Economics Letters, 19(3):285-288. Published by Taylor & Francis www.routledge.com (ISSN: 1350-4851) DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2011.572844
- Language: English
- Date: 2012