Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Strassmair, Christina - 2008
the deterrence hypothesis, namely that crime is weakly decreasing in deterrent incentives, i.e. severity and probability … of punishment. In our experiment, subjects can steal from another participant's payoff. Deterrent incentives vary across … incentives, subjects steal more the stronger the incentives. We observe two types of subjects: selfish subjects who act according …