Shifting the blame: on delegation and responsibility

DOI10.1093/RESTUD/RDR023MaRDI QIDQ4610491zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Björn Bartling, U. Fischbacher

Publication date 23 January 2019

Published in Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/55734/1/rdr023.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

responsibilitypunishmentdelegationdecision rights

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Experimental studies (91A90)

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