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JOURNAL OF APPLIED BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
Giving, Taking, and Punishment in a Public Goods Environment
Author(s): Brian T. Kench, Neil B. Niman
Citation: Brian T. Kench, Neil B. Niman, (2014) "Giving, Taking, and Punishment in a Public Goods Environment," Journal of Applied Business and Economics, Vol. 16, Iss. 2, pp. 40-56
Article Type: Research paper
Publisher: North American Business Press
Abstract:
In this paper, we introduce the concept of taking into a public goods environment to better understand 1)
if having the option to take influences one’s contribution to the public good and 2) whether or not taking
transitions into punishment when subjects are given knowledge about the contributions of others. Our
results reveal that subjects both give and take; and that providing additional information has no effect on
the decision to take. One possible explanation is that decisions such as these rely on exogenous social
norms rather than relevant information endogenously determined as the result of game play.
