Previous findings on punishment have focused on environments in which the outcomes are known with certainty. In this … paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner … specified probabilistically under a transparent information condition. In particular, we study two types of punishment …

vigilante justice, as represented by peer-to-peer punishment, to delegated policing, as represented by the "hired gun" mechanism …

Although decades of empirical research has demonstrated that criminal behavior responds to incentives, non … incentives. However, scientific research should not be driven by personal beliefs. Whether or not economic conditions matter or …, the original findings of Mocan and Gittings (2003) are robust, providing evidence that people indeed react to incentives …

examine whether information on the offered incentives improves reports about a known objective prior. We find that transparent … information on incentives gives rise to error rates in excess of 40 percent, and that only 15 percent of participants consistently … report the truth. False reports are conservative and appear to result from a biased perception of the BSR incentives. While …

Team incentives are important in many compensation systems that pay workers according to the output of their team as … contrast the performance of lower ability participants and higher ability participants in an experiment with three distribution …

This article surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law -- the use of public agents (inspectors, tax auditors …, police, prosecutors) to detect and to sanction violators of legal rules. We first present the basic elements of the theory … examine a variety of extensions of the central theory, concerning accidental harms, costs of imposing fines, errors, general …