Adriani, Fabrizio; Sonderegger, Silvia - In: Games 9 (2018) 4/102, pp. 1-32
We formally explore the idea that punishment of norm-breakers may be a vehicle for the older generation to teach … youngsters about social norms. We show that this signaling role provides sufficient incentives to sustain costly punishing … between past, present, and future punishment. Information about the past is important for youngsters, because the past shapes …
