the possibility to vote for the exclusion of non-cooperating allies, i.e. ostracism, can be a powerful negative referendum … to increase allies’ contributions to the collective good. However, it is found that ostracism does not necessarily … increase earnings in a public goods game. In particular, it is shown that the ostracism mechanism is used differently by …

to improve outcomes. Our lab-in-the-field experiment studies how information about high or low levels of previous …

Ostracism, or exclusion by peers, has been practiced since ancient times as a severe form of punishment against … transgressors of laws or social norms. The purpose of this paper is to offer a comprehensive analysis on how ostracism affects … behavior and the functioning of a social group. We present data from a laboratory experiment, in which participants face a …

Ostracism is practiced by virtually all societies around the world as a means of enforcing cooperation and excluding … members who show anti-social behaviors or attitudes. In this paper, we use a public goods experiment to study whether groups …

The paper presents the results of an economic experiment in which the effects of fees on allocative efficiency of …

, the extent to which the Nash threat leads to Pareto-improving extraction levels. Through our experiment, we confirm the …