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 …

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. …

results of an experiment administered in the United States reported by Alm, Jackson and McKee (1992). The results for both …

This experiment investigates contests between groups. Each group has one strong player, with a higher valuation for the …

cornerstone of contract theory. We have conducted an experiment with 720 participants to explore whether the theoretical insights …