systems exist that avoid these costs and whether other, more centralized, punishment systems are superior and will be … preferred by the people. Here, we show that welfare-enhancing peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges …. The exogenous removal of the norm consensus opportunity reduces the efficiency of peer punishment and renders centralized …

preferred by the people. Here, we show that welfare-enhancing peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges …. The exogenous removal of the norm consensus opportunity reduces the efficiency of peer punishment and renders centralized … peer sanctioning with a norm consensus opportunity or an equally efficient institution with centralized punishment by an …

that avoid these costs and whether other, more centralized, punishment systems are superior and will be preferred by the … people. Here, we show that efficient peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges quickly if we introduce … social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the …

that avoid these costs and whether other, more centralized, punishment systems are superior and will be preferred by the … people. Here, we show that efficient peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges quickly if we introduce … social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears to guide subjects’ cooperation and punishment choices, including the …

incentives as entitlements that can be lost by failing to reach a performance target, rather than as additional rewards that can …

Punishment typically involves depriving violators of resources they own such as money or labor. These resources can … become revenue for authorities and thus motivate profit seeking punishment. In this paper, we design a novel experiment to … provide direct evidence on the role punishment plays in communicating norms. Importantly, this allows us to provide …

We use a laboratory experiment to study the extent to which people tailor levels of punishment to the subjective … experience of the person to receive that punishment, for both monetary and non-monetary sanctions. We find that subjects tend to …-monetary punishments are different when considered as proportions of the maximum possible punishment, but that this does not hold when non …

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 the existence of weak punishment and norm information. Norm information may refer either to …

A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead … enforcement, enabling agents to justify selfish behavior. We address the question of punishment legitimacy by shedding light upon … the importance of social norms and their interplay with punishment. Often people are presented with incomplete norm …

We use a laboratory experiment to study the extent to which people tailor levels of punishment to the subjective … experience of the person to receive that punishment, for both monetary and non-monetary sanctions. We find that subjects tend to …-monetary punishments are different when considered as proportions of the maximum possible punishment, but that this does not hold when non …