By Dr David Hugh-Jones This post is about a paper of mine with Carlo Perroni of Warwick University, The Logic of Costly Punishment Reversed. It has just been accepted in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (ungated version at my website). The germ for this paper came in 2006 at Northwestern University, in a chat with … Continue reading Timmy Tiptoes and the Tale of Costly Punishment
The behavioural economics of parkrun
By Prof Theodore Turocy Last week, Stoke Gifford Parish Council voted to institute a £1 per runner charge on the parkrun (http://www.parkrun.org.uk) event held at Little Stoke Park in Bristol, citing, among other factors, the maintenance costs imposed on the park by the 200 or more participants who run, jog, or walk 5km as part … Continue reading The behavioural economics of parkrun