Bettina Rockenbach and Irenaeus Wolff, German Economic Review, 17(3): 316–336, 2016
- We let participants come up with their own rules for a standard public-good setting on four consecutive occasions. Many start out introducing (centralised!) punishment but abandon it later on. Also, many use openly-fictional framing, and surprisingly successfully so. A number of rule designers choose to conceil individual contributions, and no designer introduced a leader or ostracism. Finally, rule designers typically combined several rule components.
