CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Szobonyáné Szabó-Morvai, Ágnes |
|---|---|
| Title | IS ALTRUISTIC PUNISHMENT IN FACT ALTRUISTIC? AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH |
| Summary | The thesis intends to present an exhaustive description of a newly-emerging field of economic methodology: experimental economics, including its history, methods and most important literature; moreover, it demonstrates how the method works in practice. The experiment is designed to test a hypothesis, according to which third-party punishment reveals altruistic motives of the subjects. The alternative hypothesis is that the punishment is purely of normative or at least non-altruistic type. The results of the experiment suggest that altruism is clearly included in the motives of the punishment, which does not contradict with a priori expectations of the literature. |
| Supervisor | Simonovits, Andras; Meszerics, Tamas |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/c05sza01.pdf |
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