We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an … individual are on average significantly positively proportional to other members’ punishment decisions to that individual. …

We report a framed field experiment, in which we study the effectiveness of punishment and reward in sustaining …

Endogenously chosen punishment institutions perform well in increasing contributions and long-term payoffs in social … dilemma situations. However, they suffer from (a) initial reluctance of subjects to join the punishment institution and (b …) initial efficiency losses due to frequent punishment. Here, we investigate the effects of social learning on the acceptence …

short-term punishment institution (i.e., a crackdown) on bribery behavior in a lab setting. We conduct lab experiments in …

This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is a third party independent … of the implicated parties who propose the punishment. In a prisoner's dilemma experiment, we find an independent third … party vetoes not only punishment to the cooperators but punishment to the defectors as well. Compared with the case when the …

Considerable experimental evidence shows that although costly peer-punishment enhances cooperation in repeated public …-good games, heavy punishment in early rounds leads to average period payoffs below the non-cooperative equilibrium benchmark. In … fall prey to a poverty trap or, to avoid this, abstain from punishment altogether. We show that neither is the case …

financial punishment was estimated as the summation of the value of fines, seizure of assets (monetary only), and the … compensation order sentenced by judges. The total financial punishment sentenced by the supreme judges during the period of 2001 … of corruption and total financial punishment sentenced shall be borne by the tax payers. Logistic and Tobin’s logistic …

The paper estimates the effects of organized crime on FDI inflows in 103 Italian provinces in the period 2004-06. The … presence of organized crime at a provincial level is quantified through several indicators, based on data for different kinds … inflows. Finally, our analysis suggests the presence of organized crime is a strong disincentive for foreign investors …