Does the Reliability of Institutions Affect Public Good Contributions? Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Autor: Martin Fochmann and Bjoern Jahnke and Andreas Wagener
Nummer: 570, Feb 2016, pp. 46
JEL-Class: H41, A13, C91
Abstract:
Reliable institutions - i.e., institutions that live up to the norms that agents expect them to keep - foment cooperative behavior. We experimentally confirm this hypothesis in a public goods game with a salient norm that cooperation was socially demanded and corruption ought not to occur. When nevertheless corruption attempts came up, groups that were told that 'the system' had fended off the attempts made considerably higher contributions to the public good than groups that only learned that the attempt did not affect their payoffs or that were not at all exposed to corruption.
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