a punishment regime, in which certain individuals are permitted, but not required, to have punishment directed toward … them. The punishment system can condition on type and contribution history. The results indicate that the most effective … regime, in terms of contributions and earnings, is one that allows punishment of low contributors only, regardless of …

conflict, abstracting from the mediators methods and techniques.We design an experiment where two-person conflicts are resolved …

behavior. Instead, we analyze a system of what we call local control (LC), where the enforcement of punishment lies in the … executed and threatened punishment. Agents maximize their payoffs and underlie a constant drift towards not controlling others …. If the educational impact of control is too weak LC breaks down. Moreover, there exists a non{monotonic punishment effect …

In different treatments of an intergenerational common resource experiment, monetary payoff maximization by each …

treatment, sanctions are announced only after the experiment is finished, removing in this way all strategic reasons to punish … (altruistic punishment). Interestingly, contributions to the public good in both treatments with sanctioning are higher than when … increases cooperation: subjects correctly expect that nonstrategic sanctioning takes place against freeriders. …