that humans show both kinds of bounded rationality in the strategic situation of crime, control and punishment. We conclude … inspections and do not affect crime rates. We present two laboratory experiments, which challenge this perspective by … demonstrating that both, criminals and inspectors, are affected by punishment levels. Thereupon, we investigate with agent …

punishment opportunities and a parameter change after the first ten (of twenty) rounds. Our data shows that cooperation among … subjects who had experienced a higher marginal return on public-good contributions or low punishment costs in rounds 1 …

In this study, we examine the effectiveness of the individual-punishment mechanism in larger groups, comparing groups … of four to groups of 40 participants. We find that the individual punishment mechanism is remarkably robust when the MPCR … punishment decisions in the context of a larger group. This reflects increased per-capita expenditures on punishment that offset …

The most famous element in Bentham’s theory of punishment, the Panopticon Prison, expresses his view of the two … purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham’s intuition in a public goods lab experiment … by manipulating how much information on punishment experienced by others is available to would-be offenders. Compared …

. Communication between the mediator and the conflict parties increases cooperation, even if punishment is impossible. However, when … cooperation fails, communication without punishment leads to particularly low payouts for the ‘losing’ party. …

punishment option and compare it to the behavior of individuals in a laboratory experiment. We also consider different team …

Recent experiments have shown that voluntary punishment of free riders can increase contributions, mitigating the free … of voluntary punishment. In our experiment, allowing punishment of punishing behaviors reduces punishment of high … contributors, but gives rise to efficiency-reducing second-order “perverse†punishment. On balance, efficiency and contributions …

punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to … prisoner's dilemma game with in-group as opposed to out-group members. They also use a costly punishment option to selectively … stronger in-group cooperation, but also a qualitative change in punishment: punishment becomes anti-social, harming cooperative …

Considerable experimental evidence shows that although costly peer-punishment enhances cooperation in repeated public …-good games, heavy punishment in early rounds leads to average period payoffs below the non-cooperative equilibrium benchmark. In … fall prey to a poverty trap or, to avoid this, abstain from punishment altogether. We show that neither is the case …