Punishment and Counter-punishment in Public Good Games: Can We Still Govern Ourselves?
- 1 January 2005
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper studies how the existence of counter-punishment opportunities affects cooperation and welfare when agents face a social dilemma. Using a public-goodKeywords
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