This paper provides a comparative-statics analysis of punishment in public-good experiments. We vary the effectiveness … of punishment, that is, the factor by which punishment reduces the punished player's income. The data show that … contributions increase monotonically in punishment effectiveness. High effectiveness leads to near complete cooperation and welfare …

engage in punishment. Analyzing the interplay between types in an additional experiment, we show that pro-social punishers … punishment as well as their relative importance for mitigating social dilemmas. Using a novel strategy-method approach we … identify individual punishment patterns and link them with individual cooperation patterns. Classifying N = 628 subjects along …

This paper provides a comparative statics analysis of punishment in public-good experiments. We vary systematically the … effectiveness of punishment, that is, the factor by which punishment reduces the punished player's income, and we find that … rates and welfare improvements. Below a certain threshold, however, punishment cannot prevent the decay of cooperation found …

interacts with prices to generate a conventional demand curve. We test the price responsiveness of the demand for punishment by … strategic reason to punish. We nonetheless find significant levels of punishment, and we learn that both price and the extent to … which the recipient's contribution is below the group mean are significant determinants of the quantity of punishment …

in several recent studies, and we report a new experiment which shows that introducing higher-order punishment …The fact that many people take it upon themselves to impose costly punishment on free riders helps to explain why … punishment is costly and at times misdirected. We document the frequency and probable causes of punishment of high contributors …