reciprocity norm, irrespective of monetary consequences. -- Public good games ; Punishment ; Experiments ; Conditional cooperation … second contributor. The consequences of sanctioning depend on the treatment: whereas punishment can reduce inequality in one … treatment, it only creates another inequality in the other. To capture the effect of delay on punishment both treatments are run …

This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is independent of its proposer …. In a prisoner's dilemma experiment, compared with the case when the implicated parties are allowed to punish each other …, cooperation is lower when the enforcement of punishment requires approval from an independent third party. Our data show that the …

We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the …' corruptibility but is not sufficient to eliminate the Tragedy of corruption that leads both firms and officials to earn less than in … the absence of corruption. …

provision of globally important public goods like the global climate. -- Experiment ; Groups ; Public good ; Spillover Game …

inappropriate. More importantly, victims of such abuse also start to believe that punishers' free-riding and punishment are …

This article analyzes how the anticipation of peer-punishment affects cooperativeness in the provision of public goods …. We demonstrate, firstly, that the social environment is a determinant of how the threat of peer-punishment influences … especially the case for individuals who were initially categorized as freeriders. Secondly, anticipation of peer-punishment …

We use a public-good experiment to analyze behavior in a decentralized asymmetric punishment institution. The … institution is asymmetric in the sense that players differ in the effectiveness of their punishment. At the aggregate level, we … observe remarkable similarities between outcomes in asymmetric and symmetric punishment institutions. Controlling for the …

We use a public-good experiment to analyze behavior in a decentralized asymmetric punishment institution. The … institution is asymmetric in the sense that players differ in the effectiveness of their punishment. At the aggregate level, we … observe remarkable similarities between outcomes in asymmetric and symmetric punishment institutions. Controlling for the …

heterogeneity with respect to two dimensions: capability and valuation. Our results reveal that with and without punishment …