Using a laboratory experiment, we examine whether informal monetary sanctions can lead to better coordination in a … repeated minimum effort coordination game. While most groups first experience inefficient coordination, the efficiency … increases substantially after introducing an ex post sanctioning possibility. Namely, subjects can assign punishment points to …

enforcement mechanisms of punishment and norms cannot achieve higher cooperation rates. In fact, conformity is significantly …, when cooperation is expensive we find that the combination of punishment and empirical information about others conformity …A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead …

A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead … enforcement, enabling agents to justify selfish behavior. We address the question of punishment legitimacy by shedding light upon … the importance of social norms and their interplay with punishment. People are often presented with incomplete norm …

Research examining the effect of weak punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead to … of social norms and their interplay with weak punishment in the context of a trust game. Across six conditions, we … systematically vary the combination of existence of weak punishment and norm information. Norm information may refer either to what …

We consider a dynamic model of conformity that permits both a conformist and non-conformist equilibrium. We provide … conditions under which conformity can 'invade' a population. More precisely, starting from a non-conformist equilibrium, we show … that the conformity of an arbitrarily small proportion of the population can lead to the spread of conformism and the …

stronger in-group cooperation, but also a qualitative change in punishment: punishment becomes anti-social, harming cooperative …We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and … punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to …

cooperation and sanctioning', 2007, KritV - Kritische Vierteljahresschrift fur Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft, 90, 1-2, 140 … them concerns the question of “who punishes”. In the first approach, punishment is executed by the group members themselves … individually, i.e., punishment is decentral in nature. The second approach is based on the idea that individuals may be willing to …

anger, ‘social’ emotions like shame and guilt need to be present for punishment to be an effective deterrent of …

to guide subjects’ cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment … systems exist that avoid these costs and whether other, more centralized, punishment systems are superior and will be … preferred by the people. Here, we show that welfare-enhancing peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges …