-cooperation is prevalent. In an experimental minimum-effort coordination game we investigate the effects of the information contained … of sanctions which have been actively chosen by a subject who has superior information about the previous effort of the …

explore the behavioral channels of the previous results, finding that people's beliefs about others’ contributions and the …

-cooperation is prevalent. In an experimental minimum-effort coordination game we investigate the effects of the information contained … of sanctions which have been actively chosen by a subject who has superior information about the previous effort of the …

find that exogenously introduced sanctions are effective in inducing optimistic beliefs about others and help coordination … on more efficient equilibria. On the other hand, endogenously introduced sanctions negatively influence beliefs about the …

. Sanctions introduced in the second round by the experimenter lead to more optimistic beliefs and higher efforts. This is not …

-operators’ beliefs on others’ behaviour and by directly affecting social preferences. Our results shed a new light on the behavioural …

were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent …We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government …