Tan, Fangfang; Xiao, Erte - Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche … - 2011
This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is independent of its proposer …. In a prisoner's dilemma experiment, compared with the case when the implicated parties are allowed to punish each other …, cooperation is lower when the enforcement of punishment requires approval from an independent third party. Our data show that the …