In this paper we replicate and extend the experiment of Fehr and Gaechter (2000) that analyzes the effect of an … opportunity to punish others on the level contributions in the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism. The punishment is costly for … both the players distributing and those receiving the punishment. Like Fehr and Gaechter, we find that agents often engage …

This paper reports the results from a real-effort team production experiment, where best performers can impose either …

from an experiment measuring the demand for reward and punishment by 'unaffected' third parties, separately and jointly. We … laboratory studies, the demand for punishment and reward are studied separately from one another. This paper presents the results … find that the demand for costly punishment is substantially lower when individuals are also given the ability to reward …

This paper reports the results of an experiment that investigates the relationships between inequality and punishment …. In particular, we analyze how inter-personal comparisons affect altruistic punishment behavior. In addition, we examine … how punishment affects inequality over time. We compare two treatments of a two-stage public good game, one in which …

We present the results of an experiment that explores the sanctioning behavior of individuals who experience a social … third parties, and punish low contributors, even when punishment is costly to the sanctioner. When there are five rounds of …

tax compliance decisions, we have conducted a laboratory experiment in which we introduced two types of inequities. The …