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. …

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

in the presence of heterogeneity. Under a wide range of conditions, punishment tournaments, i.e., tournaments that award … discouraged less in punishment tournaments, and hence can be compensated less to meet their participation constraints. …

to improve the understanding of Third Party punishment by reproducing an experiment conducted by Fehr et al. 2004 (TP …In Third Party punishment experiments (Fehr et al.; 2004), an agent may be punished for violating a social norm by an …

to improve the understanding of Third Party punishment by reproducing an experiment conducted by Fehr et al. 2004 (TP …In Third Party punishment experiments (Fehr et al.; 2004), an agent may be punished for violating a social norm by an …

This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is independent of its proposer …. In a prisoner's dilemma experiment, compared with the case when the implicated parties are allowed to punish each other …, cooperation is lower when the enforcement of punishment requires approval from an independent third party. Our data show that the …

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 …

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 …

that the specific punishment technology adopted plays in this context, and test to what extent punishing behavior can be … truly attributed to negative emotions. We find that a large part (around 70%) of the punishment behavior observed in … previous PTTG studies is explained by the technology of punishment adopted instead of negative emotions. Once this effect is …