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Peer effects on compliance with extortive requests
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- Andrighetto, Giulia (author)
- Mälardalens högskola,Utbildningsvetenskap och Matematik,Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy; Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm, Sweden,MAM
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- Grieco, Daniela (author)
- Department of Law, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- 2020-04-24
- 2020
- English.
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In: PLOS ONE. - : Public Library of Science. - 1932-6203. ; 15:4, s. 1-17
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- We conduct laboratory experiments to study peer effects on compliance with extortive requests. To this aim, we use an “extortion game” with multiple victims. In agreement with our hypothesis, our results show that when the information on peers’ behavior is available, compliance with appropriative requests is triggered by conformism among victims rather than by punishment. Moreover, we find that extorted sums are rather small, requests are proportional to the victim’s earnings, similar across victims, and are significantly lower when the extorter self-selects into this role. Punishment is rare, but effective. Finally, our results indicate that fairness concerns matter even in a context of extra-legal taxation, shaping both extorters’ requests and victims’ compliance.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Juridik -- Juridik och samhälle (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Law -- Law and Society (hsv//eng)
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- article
- human
- punishment
- victim
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- art (subject category)
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