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SUBMITTER: Galbiati R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6298117 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Galbiati Roberto R Henry Emeric E Jacquemet Nicolas N
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20181119 49
In situations where social payoffs are not aligned with private incentives, enforcement with fines can be a way to sustain cooperation. In this paper we show, by the means of a laboratory experiment, that past fines can have an effect on current behavior even when no longer in force. We document two mechanisms: (<i>i</i>) Past fines affect directly individuals' future propensity to cooperate, and (<i>ii</i>) when fines for noncooperation are in place in the past, individuals experience higher le ...[more]