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 …

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

Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding … strategies seen in the lab and use the simulation to develop hypotheses about why group size should matter when punishment is … allowed. We test these hypotheses experimentally and examine whether the effect of group size is purely due to the number of …

in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …

We conduct a public good experiment with high school teenagers. Some groups exclusively consist of students that we …

and privileged groups with and without decentralized punishment. We find that compared to normal groups, privileged groups … are relatively ineffective in using costly sanctions to increase everyone's contributions. Punishment is less targeted …

We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i …

public good experiments, we find that contributions are increasing over time even in the absence of punishment possibilities … repeated public good games regarding the decay of cooperation in the absence of punishment. …