Browsing Department of Economics (ECO) by Author "VAN DER WEELE, Joel"

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    Title: On Sanctions and Signals: How formal and informal mechanisms produce compliance  Author(s): VAN DER WEELE, Joel Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Why people comply with rules, why they contribute to public goods and why they behave prosocially in general is a fundamental question of social science. In the tradition of Gary Becker and the chicago school, economists ...
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    Title: The Signalling Power of Sanctions in Collective Action Problems  Author(s): VAN DER WEELE, Joel Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: We present a model of collective action in a heterogenous population of egoists and conditional cooperators. Each player is uncertain about the cooperative inclinations of the other player. A government or principal who ...