-Theorem-like voluntary cooperation. We ask whether monitoring and indirect punishment with the help of others are comparable to direct … monitoring and punishment in establishing and maintaining voluntary cooperation. The treatment effects we find are rather weak …. Others' monitoring of own activities is only an insufficient substitute for direct observability. …

Das Monitoring von Patentportfolios soll Basispatente und Umzäunungsstrategien der Pioniere sowie Umzingelungsversuche … Zitatdarstellung als neues Konzept für das Strategie-Monitoring vor. Im Gegensatz zu den bekannten Verfahren wird es ermöglicht, alle … Summary: The monitoring of patent portfolios should uncover basic patents as well as fencing and surrounding attempts. The …

on punishment behavior. In this paper we approach impartial observers' attributions of intentionality and the attachment …

increases substantially after introducing an ex post sanctioning possibility. Namely, subjects can assign punishment points to …

-governed monitoring and sanctions. This experimental study investigates the effectiveness of decentralized sanctioning institutions where … punishment opportunities are restricted to agents who are linked through alternative punishment networks. We find that the … structure of the punishment network significantly impacts contributions to the public good, but not overall efficiencies …

second contributor. The consequences of sanctioning depend on the treatment: whereas punishment can reduce inequality in one … treatment, it only creates another inequality in the other. To capture the effect of delay on punishment both treatments are run … once with immediate and once with delayed punishment. Moreover, to investigate the effect of pure voice, all four …

punishment. For this sake, we use an ultimatum minigame and distinguish two treatments: one in which responders can only accept …

whistle on corruption. We demonstrate in a simple game-theoretical model how murders can serve as an enforcement mechanism of … through three periods, we find that corruption is strongly related to the incidence of murders on journalists in countries …