Abstract
A team contest entails both public good characteristics within the teams as well as a contest across teams. In an experimental study, we analyse behaviour in such a team contest when allowing to punish or to reward other team members. Moreover, we compare two types of contest environment: One in which two teams compete for a prize and another one in which we switch off the between-group element of the contest. We find that reward giving, as opposed to punishing, induces higher contributions to the team contest. Furthermore, expenditures on rewarding other co-players are significantly higher than those for punishing.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e0236544 |
| Journal | PLoS ONE |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 9 September 2020 |
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| Publication status | Published - Sept 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2020 Heine, Strobel. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.