backfires as special agents extract significantly more resources. Introducing a peer punishment mechanism sustains contributions … stigmatization effect for the special agent as he receives substantially more peer punishment while contributions by other agents do … not change. Finally full transparency of all agents actions creates full accountability as it allows targeted punishment …

second half of the paper tests the theoretical predictions in an experiment. In contrast to previous literature, the …

knowledge. To asses the effect of information asymmetries on prosocial behavior, we conduct a laboratory experiment with a … a consequence and the main finding of our experiment, uninformed dictators behave more prosocially than informed …

knowledge. To assess the effect of information asymmetries on prosocial behavior, we conduct a laboratory experiment with a … a consequence and the main finding of our experiment, uninformed dictators behave more prosocially than informed …

-rolling experiment, we exogenously manipulate self-awareness and observability, which mediate the focus of a person on their private and … the subjects' reports. We finally show in a survey experiment that respondents believe that the likelihood of a lie …