Recent experiments show that public goods can be provided at high levels when mutual monitoring and costly punishment … are allowed. All these experiments, however, study monitoring and punishment in a setting where all agents can monitor and …

Monitoring by peers is often an effective means of attenuating incentive problems. Most explanations of the efficacy of … mutual monitoring rely either on small group size or on a version of the Folk theorem with repeated interactions which … in which the effectiveness of mutual monitoring depends not on these factors, but rather on strong reciprocity: the …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …

unemployed to front-load search effort prior to monitoring. This causes the job finding rate to increase above the post sanction …

, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, and employment subsidies. The results are remarkably uniform across studies. We …

This paper shows that monitoring too much a partner in the initial phase of a relationship may not be optimal if the … is simple: by monitoring too much we learn less on how the partner will behave when he is not monitored. Only by giving …

monitoring devices and piece-rates. We find that firms that offer seniority-based pay are less likely to offer explicit … incentives. They are also less likely to invest in monitoring devices. We also find that firms that offer seniority-based pay are …