Security of Property as a Public Good: Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries
Security of Property as a Public Good: Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries
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作为公共物品的财产安全：五个国家的制度、社会政治环境和实验行为
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.2172473
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发表时间：
2012
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通讯作者：
D. Batjargal
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作者：
Francisco Campos;L. Putterman;T. Ahn;Loukas Balafoutas;Mongoljin Batsaikhan;Matthias Sutter;Chentong Xu;I. Chen;J. Tarrasó;M'exico City;Benjamin Furlan;In Innsbruck;M. Kang;Sangyeol Ahn;Namun Cho;I. Seoul;Amarsanaa Dashdavaa;D. Batjargal
我们对五个截然不同的国家--奥地利、墨西哥、蒙古、韩国和美国--的财产保护进行了实验研究。我们的主要结果是，不同的实验机构的财产安全不同，我们的主题库表现出显著不同的行为，这些行为与国家层面的财产安全、信任和政府质量相关。来自信任度或安全感较高的国家的受试者最初更容易避免盗窃，并将更多资源投入生产，而来自政治机构质量较高的国家的受试者更支持通过强制征税来保护财产。这突出了社会政治因素在决定各国能否成功解决集体行动问题，包括保护财产权方面的相关性。
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries— Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly different behaviors that correlate with country-level property security, trust and quality of government. Subjects from countries with higher levels of trust or perceptions of safety are more prone to abstain initially from theft and devote more resources to production, and subjects from countries with higher quality political institutions are more supportive of protecting property through compulsory taxation. This highlights the relevance of socio-political factors in determining countries’ success in addressing collective action problems including safeguarding property rights.