symmetric and asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery, one may wonder which punishment strategy is more effective in curbing … design. The results show that, in both countries, with symmetric punishment recipients are less likely to grant the socially … undesirable favor, while bribers are more likely to report to the authorities with asymmetric punishment. In addition, when …

Strong Reciprocity theorists claim that cooperation in social dilemma games can be sustained by costly punishment … costly punishment raises cooperation in laboratory conditions. Its efficacy in the field however is controversial. I … theorists is unsupported by ethnographic evidence on decentralised punishment and by historical evidence on common pool …

In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in …

Research examining the effect of weak punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead to … of social norms and their interplay with weak punishment in the context of a trust game. Across six conditions, we … systematically vary the combination of existence of weak punishment and norm information. Norm information may refer either to what …

problem is multilateral punishment, whereby groups of principals jointly punish cheating agents by giving them bad reputations …. But how does such punishment work when there is uncertainty regarding whether an agent actually cheated or was just the … to employ multilateral punishment. We find that a modest amount of uncertainty increases overall welfare because …