controlled conditions, we have conducted a public goods experiment with central punishment. The authority is neutral - she does … not benefit from contributions to the public good. Punishment is costly. Along with the punishment decisions the authority … writes justifications for her decisions. In the Baseline, authorities are requested to justify punishment decisions, but the …

purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment …. -- Punishment ; Deterrence ; Special Prevention ; Jeremy Bentham ; Experiment ; Public Good …The most famous element in Bentham's theory of punishment, the Panopticon Prison, expresses his view of the two …

, even if punishment is costly. However, these studies focus on situations where there is no uncertainty about others …' behavior. We investigate punishment in a world with “reasonable doubt” about others' contributions. Interestingly, people … level of a setting without punishment. Our findings suggest that sufficient information accuracy about others' behavior is …

punishment helps sustain cooperation if participants experience free-riding. -- deterrence ; public good experiment ; inequity …) there is preference uncertainty. In a linear public good with punishment meted out by a disinterested participant, I test … two implications of the model: (a) participants increase contributions in reaction to imperfect punishment; (b) imperfect …

We investigate power abuse of a single punisher in a public-goods-game subject to variations in punishment power and …

We use a public-good experiment to analyze behavior in a decentralized asymmetric punishment institution. The … institution is asymmetric in the sense that players differ in the effectiveness of their punishment. At the aggregate level, we … observe remarkable similarities between outcomes in asymmetric and symmetric punishment institutions. Controlling for the …

to be both consistent across decisions and relatively stable over time. -- Experiment ; public-good ; punishment ; social …Carpenter and Matthews (2009) examine the cooperation norms determining people's punishment behavior in a social … punishment. Using multiple punishment stages and self-contained episodes of interaction, we disentangle the effects of …

Laboratory experiments by Fudenberg and Pathak (2010), and Vyrastekova, Funaki and Takeuch (2008) show that punishment … results demonstrate that the real power of unobserved punishment is unleashed when combined with observable punishment …. Providing both unobserved and observed punishment strongly enhances cooperation within groups - strikingly, even with less …

This paper studies experimentally how the endogeneity of sanctioning institutions affects the severity of punishment in … when subjects can vote on the institutional setting. We find that punishment is significantly higher when the sanctioning … institution is exogenous, which can be explained by a difference in the effectiveness of punishment. Subjects respond to …

purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment …The most famous element in Bentham's theory of punishment, the Panopticon Prison, expresses his view of the two … by manipulating how much information on punishment experienced by others is available to would-be offenders. Compared …