punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics … promoting social norms. We show here, using experiments with human subjects, that public implementation of punishment can … interests, we find that privately implemented punishment reduces cooperation relative to a baseline treatment without punishment …

We conduct a framed field experiment with 245 employed persons (no students) as subjects and a real tax, which is …

This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a …

goods. We use this paradigm to test whether a labor-income tax and an equivalent consumption tax lead to identical labor …

This survey summarizes the classical fundamentals of modern deterrence theory, covers major theoretical and empirical … findings on the impact of certainty and severity of punishment (and the interplay thereof) as well as underlying methodological … 'rational' deterrence strategies in subcultural societies. …