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The impact of fine size and uncertainty on punishment and deterrence : theory and evidence from the laboratory
Feess, Eberhard; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schramm, … - 2015
of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when … punish, which in turn reduces the deterrence effect of high fines. Using a laboratory experiment, we identify these effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347317
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Turning the lab into Jeremy Bentham's panopticon: The effect of punishment on offenders and non-offenders
Engel, Christoph; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2010
purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment … prevention effect but show that the deterrence effect is smaller the more information on individual punishment is available. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270435
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Turning the Lab into Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon. The Effect of Punishment on Offenders and Non-Offenders
Engel, Christoph; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2010
purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham’s intuition in a public goods lab experiment … prevention effect but show that the deterrence effect is smaller the more information on individual punishment is available. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633210
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Punishment despite reasonable doubt : a public goods experiment with uncertainty over contributions
Grechenig, Kristoffel; Nicklisch, Andreas; Thöni, Christian - 2010
Under a great variety of legally relevant circumstances, people have to decide whether or not to cooperate, when they face an incentive to defect. The law sometimes provides people with sanctioning mechanisms to enforce pro-social behavior. Experimental evidence on voluntary public good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008738323
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Turning the lab into Jeremy Bentham's panopticon : the effect of punishment on offenders and non-offenders
Engel, Christoph; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2010
purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment … prevention effect but show that the deterrence effect is smaller the more information on individual punishment is available …. -- Punishment ; Deterrence ; Special Prevention ; Jeremy Bentham ; Experiment ; Public Good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935656
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Symmetric vs. asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery
Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Yu, Gaoneng - 2012
tradeoff between deterrence and law enforcement. In a forward-looking perspective, lawmakers must decide which aim carries more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487845
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Deterrence by imperfect sanctions : a public good experiment
Engel, Christoph - 2013
punishment helps sustain cooperation if participants experience free-riding. -- deterrence ; public good experiment ; inequity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009742336
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Punishment despite reasonable doubt : a public goods experiment with uncertainty over contributions
Grechenig, Christoffel; Nicklisch, Andreas; Thöni, … - 2010
Under a great variety of legally relevant circumstances, people have to decide whether or not to cooperate, when they face an incentive to defect. The law sometimes provides people with sanctioning mechanisms to enforce pro-social behavior. Experimental evidence on voluntary public good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952402
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Turning the Lab into Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon A Lab Experiment on the Transparency of Punishment
Engel, Christoph - 2018
purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. This paper inves-tigates Bentham’s intuition in a public goods lab …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197778
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Swiftness and delay of punishment
Dušek, Libor; Traxler, Christian - 2024
This paper studies how the swiftness and delay of punishment affect behavior. Using rich administrative data from automated speed cameras, we exploit two (quasi-)experimental sources of variation in the time between a speeding offense and the sending of a ticket. At the launch of the speed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014457716