Gemäß der klassischen ökonomischen Theorie der Kriminalität sollte ein Anstieg der erwarteten Strafe (also des …

A vast amount of empirical and theoretical research on public good games indicates that the threat of punishment can … curb free-riding in human groups engaged in joint enterprises. Since punishment is often costly, however, this raises an … investigations, so far, considered peer punishment: players could impose fines on those who exploited them, at a cost to themselves …

about these welfare gains is not logically licensed. In short, labeling punishment “altruistic” because it has the effect of … punishment can help solve collective action problems. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 …

This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is independent of its proposer …, cooperation is lower when the enforcement of punishment requires approval from an independent third party. Our data show that the … independent third party mitigates the severity of punishment and consequently diminishes the effectiveness of punishment on …

punishment of inefficient defection. Our paper provides evidence of a dark side of group membership. In the presence of cues of … competition between groups, a taste for harming the out-group emerges: punishment ceases to serve a norm enforcement function, and … mechanism that might help explain previous mixed results on the social value of punishment, and they contribute to understanding …

The existence of punishment opportunities has been shown to cause efficiency in public goods experiments to increase … considerably. In this paper we ask whether punishment also has a downside in terms of process dissatisfaction. We conduct an … experiment to study the conjecture that an environment with stronger punishment possibilities leads to higher material but lower …