interest of economists in norms, the literature on third party punishment is surprisingly thin, however. In this paper, we … report on the results of an experiment designed to evaluate two distinct explanations for this phenomenon, indignation and …

behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm …

altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative response. Our experiment confirms the existence of …. To provide theoretical foundations for social reciprocity, we show that generalized punishment norms survive in one of …

This study reports data from a field experiment that was conducted to investigate the relevance of gift-exchange for … charitable giving. Roughly 10,000 solicitation letters were sent to potential donors in the experiment. One third of the letters …

theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators’ punishment is almost exclusively targeted … towards the defectors but the latter also impose a considerable amount of spiteful punishment on the cooperators. However …, spiteful punishment vanishes if the punishers can no longer affect the payoff differences between themselves and the punished …

experiment, where principals set wages and agents respond by choosing effort levels. In addition to the efforts the principals …

-laboratory labor market experiment. We recruited participants to enter survey data for a well-known charitable organization. Workers …

We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects …