focuses on context-specific empirical studies. We use a public good game experiment with endogenous groups to investigate how …

purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various …

altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one … punishment among individuals during Ramadan, even when the degree of their religiosity varied. However, less religious people did …

willingness of some team members to engage in the costly punishment of shirkers. This alternative does not require small group …

-effort experiment based on this model. Consistent with a behavioral approach to public finance, we find that tournament workers are less …

interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design …

study employs an extra-laboratory experiment in a German prison to test the effectiveness of deterrence. Subjects either … face potential punishment when stealing, or they can steal without deterrence. We confirm Gary Becker’s deterrence …Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison …

We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we conducted in Russia with 566 … cooperation-enhancing effect of punishment. An important reason is that there is substantial spiteful punishment of high …

This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in … public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or punishment profiles using the strategy … contribute more unequally. Contingent punishment strategies are found to increase with decreasing contributions by the target …

the utility loss at the Nash equilibrium. We test the theoretical model empirically by conducting contribution game …