Efficiency and Punishment in a Coordination Game: Voluntary Sanctions in the Minimum Effort Game
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Keywords
coordination; minimum effort; order-statistic game; punishment; sanction; weakest link;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2015-02-16 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2015-02-16 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-GTH-2015-02-16 (Game Theory)
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