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

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 …

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 …

begin by reporting results from an experiment in which we investigate how cooperation in allocation games is affected by the …

club theory and the free-riding externality familiar from the theory on private provision of public goods. We compare three …

Solution or the Lindahl Equilibrium to proceed to the Pareto frontier. We apply our theory to climate change mitigation, a …

This paper reports the results from a laboratory experiment designed to study political distortions in the accumulation … debt associated with larger majority requirements. Also in line with the theory, we find that debt is lower when the …