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 …

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 …

altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one … punishment among individuals during Ramadan, even when the degree of their religiosity varied. However, less religious people did …

laboratory experiment, subjects play a public good game with punishment in which feedback on actual contributions is obscured …

punishment. However, neither option is without cost. What is the tradeoff between these strategies? In this study, we introduce … an exogenous punishment mechanism that varies the probability and magnitude of punishment to examine this tradeoff. In … our punishment system, sanctions are imposed on the lowest contributor according to a predetermined probability rather …

can be attributed to responders’ provision of a public good: Punishment creates a group reputation for being â … treatment with non-informed proposers, the hypothesis of responder’s enjoyment of overt punishment is not supported. Copyright …

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 …