and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …

attempts to increase the severity of punishment will alter the payoff of the individuals involved, leaving unchanged the … the certainty of punishment and the ability of the government to enforce it. …

This paper studies how the swiftness and delay of punishment affect behavior. Using rich administrative data from … beliefs, as reflected in our survey. Yet, we document large mechanical benefits of swift punishment and provide a theoretical …

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … cooperation with punishment which leads to a decrease in conditional cooperation. The power to punish means more responsibility …

the model's predictions in a laboratory experiment. Because collusive tax evasion involves social interaction, this paper …

engage in punishment. Analyzing the interplay between types in an additional experiment, we show that pro-social punishers … punishment as well as their relative importance for mitigating social dilemmas. Using a novel strategy-method approach we … identify individual punishment patterns and link them with individual cooperation patterns. Classifying N = 628 subjects along …