Calabuig, Vicente, Fatas, Enrique, Olcina, Gonzalo and Rodriguez-Lara, Ismael (2016) Carry a big stick, or no stick at all: Punishment and endowment heterogeneity in the trust game. Journal of Economic Psychology, 57. 153–171. ISSN 0167-4870
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Abstract
We investigate the effect of costly punishment in a trust game with endowment heterogeneity. Our findings indicate that the difference between the investor and the allocator’s initial endowments determines the effect of punishment on trust and trustworthiness. Punishment fosters trust only when the investor is wealthier than the allocator. Otherwise, punishment fails to promote trusting behavior. As for trustworthiness, the effect is just the opposite. The higher the difference between the investor and the allocator’s initial endowments, the less willing allocators are to pay back. We discuss the consistency of our findings with social preference models (like inequality aversion, reciprocity), the capacity of punishment (i.e., the deterrence hypothesis) and hidden costs of punishment (i.e., models of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation). Our results are hardly coherent with the first two (inequality aversion and deterrence), but roughly consistent with the latter.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | trust game,endowment heterogeneity,punishment,deterrence hypothesis,crowding-out,intrinsic and extrinsic motivation,experimental economics |
Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics |
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Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 05 Oct 2016 13:00 |
Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 01:39 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/60756 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.joep.2016.09.006 |
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