preferences or peer punishment, both of which are similar across the four subject pools. Our methodology is generalizable across …

This paper provides a comparative-statics analysis of punishment in public-good experiments. We vary the effectiveness … of punishment, that is, the factor by which punishment reduces the punished player's income. The data show that … contributions increase monotonically in punishment effectiveness. High effectiveness leads to near complete cooperation and welfare …

individuals’ prosociality and punishment. In Study 1 (N=707), we found that the quality of institutions enforcing cooperativeness … Game (DG) giving, but had no significant relationship with punishment in a Third-Party Punishment Game (TPPG). In Study 1R …=516), we experimentally manipulated institutional quality in a repeated Public Goods Game with a centralized punishment …

inclinations. The third pillar are sanctions meted out to anyone who does not cooperate; ideally punishment can work as a mere … findings, in particular with regard to punishment behaviour. The chapter concludes with remarks on future research. …

Laboratory experiments by Fudenberg and Pathak (2010), and Vyrastekova, Funaki and Takeuch (2008) show that punishment … results demonstrate that the real power of unobserved punishment is unleashed when combined with observable punishment …. Providing both unobserved and observed punishment strongly enhances cooperation within groups - strikingly, even with less …

punishment as well as their relative importance for mitigating social dilemmas. Using a novel strategy-method approach we … identify individual punishment patterns and link them with individual cooperation patterns. Classifying N = 628 subjects along … these two dimensions documents that cooperation and punishment patterns are intuitively aligned for most individuals …