Vertragstheorie - ausgewählte Ansatzpunkte zur Betrugsbekämpfung und insbesondere das Problem der Sanktionierung von ertappten …, selected instruments to fight insurance fraud and problems concerning the punishment of detected defrauders are analyzed by … using existing results of contract theory. …

Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding … strategies seen in the lab and use the simulation to develop hypotheses about why group size should matter when punishment is … rates no lower than small groups because punishment does not fall appreciably in large groups. However, hindrances to …

play a treatment with punishment, they cooperate less and face higher punishment costs than when first playing a treatment … without punishment. The changes are that drastic that punishment does not pay in the first case, while it does in the later …. Second, for participants first playing without punishment the contributions in the very first period of play determine the …

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 …

a punishment regime, in which certain individuals are permitted, but not required, to have punishment directed toward … them. The punishment system can condition on type and contribution history. The results indicate that the most effective … regime, in terms of contributions and earnings, is one that allows punishment of low contributors only, regardless of …

punishment opportunities are restricted to agents who are linked through alternative punishment networks. We find that the … structure of the punishment network significantly impacts contributions to the public good, but not overall efficiencies …. Contributions collapse over decision rounds in groups with limited punishment opportunities, even if the absolute punishment …

three mechanisms with the appropriate distribution of prizes. We test the model's predictions in a laboratory experiment and …

Using a laboratory experiment, we examine whether informal monetary sanctions can lead to better coordination in a … increases substantially after introducing an ex post sanctioning possibility. Namely, subjects can assign punishment points to …

second contributor. The consequences of sanctioning depend on the treatment: whereas punishment can reduce inequality in one … treatment, it only creates another inequality in the other. To capture the effect of delay on punishment both treatments are run … once with immediate and once with delayed punishment. Moreover, to investigate the effect of pure voice, all four …