crime, and the penalty and probability of detection. We find that the probability of stealing is increasing in the amount of …

This paper studies intercollegiate athletics in the context of the theory of cartels. Some point to explicit attempts … evidence of cartel behavior. Others argue that such limits enhance product quality by preserving amateurism. I find that the …

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 …

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 … fundamental, properties in graph theory allow us to interpret the variation in the patterns of behavior that arise in the …

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

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 …

Army. We conduct choice experiments - simultaneous prisoner’s dilemma games, with and without third-party punishment - in … not lead to hostility, in the sense of vindictive punishment of outsiders, but does affect norm enforcement, enhancing …

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 …

in social dilemmas. Participants repeatedly choose between a community with and an alternative without punishment … opportunities. Within each community a social dilemma game is played. While the community with punishment grows over time and fully …