can be tricky, this paper uses the crime strategic model (inspection game) proposed by Tsebelis. This model shows that any … attempts to increase the severity of punishment will alter the payoff of the individuals involved, leaving unchanged the … frequency of violation at equilibrium. This result is misleading: payoffs are not independent and the crime game can not be …

of punishment. This paper presents the first controlled experiment to study a third important factor that has been mainly … will be punished is dissolved and the timing at which the punishment is actually imposed, as well as the combination …: either no delay (immediate resolution and immediate punishment) or maximum delay (both resolution and punishment as much as …

We conduct an experiment to examine the role of retribution and deterrence in motivating third party punishment. In … individual. In a one-shot prisoner's dilemma game with third party punishment, we find groups punish more when the penalty embeds … deterrence than when it can only be retributive. In contrast, individual third parties' punishment decisions do not vary on …