Monitoring by peers is often an effective means of attenuating incentive problems. Most explanations of the efficacy of … mutual monitoring rely either on small group size or on a version of the Folk theorem with repeated interactions which … in which the effectiveness of mutual monitoring depends not on these factors, but rather on strong reciprocity: the …

Recent experiments show that public goods can be provided at high levels when mutual monitoring and costly punishment … are allowed. All these experiments, however, study monitoring and punishment in a setting where all agents can monitor and …

This paper studies monitoring and punishment behavior by second and third parties in a cooperation experiment with … monitoring and punishment respond to changes in monitoring costs, and exploit the evidence to gain new insights about … to increasingly weaker incentives for cooperation relative to second party punishment as monitoring costs rise. In …

cooperation and efficiency in a social dilemma change in response to varying how monitoring and punishment are jointly organized … hypothesized, we find that delegated punishment outperforms other punishment regimes, irrespective of the monitoring regime, both … to the baseline unless accompanied by a credible punishment. When combined with a punishment institution, both monitoring …

unincentivized local monitoring. We use these experimental impacts to undertake a detailed cost-benefit analysis and conclude, even …

Whistle-blowing is seen as a powerful tool in containing corruption, although theoretical findings and experimental … evidence cast doubt on its effectiveness. We expand a standard corruption model by allowing both, briber and official to … initiate corruption actively, in order to assess the full effect of whistle-blowing. In our laboratory experiment we find that …

the use of loaded language significantly reduces the incidence of bribery and increases the level of punishment …. Punishment of bribery leads to reduced bribery in future. The evidence suggests that this game captures essential features of a … history of past play has little effect on the level of corruption. …

Corruption in the public sector is problem that almost all countries in the world face with, in greater or lesser … extent. During couple of past years, Bosnia and Herzegovina has had a constant growth of corruption. According to the … Corruption Perception Index, Bosnia and Herzegovina has moved from 72nd position in 2013 to 80th position in 2014, with scores …