On November 9, 2009, PED Seminar Series Presents
Costly cooperation and punishment from a behavioral economics perspective
In this talk I will discuss a series of experiments that investigate people's willingness to use costly punishment to sanction others' behavior in social dilemmas. In the first part I will review some important findings and in the second part I will discuss some recent investigations with regard to the role of loss aversion, personality, and gender differences in costly cooperation and punishment. My perspective will be from behavioral economics, but I will also discuss some potential links to evolutionary theories of cooperation.