monitors'). We review the literature on the relative merits of punishment and rewards when the distribution of incentive power …Recent work in experimental economics on the effectiveness of rewards and punishments for promoting cooperation mainly … evidence showing how concentrating reward/punishment power in one group member affects cooperation. …

monitors'). We review the literature on the relative merits of punishment and rewards when the distribution of incentive power …Recent work in experimental economics on the effectiveness of rewards and punishments for promoting cooperation mainly … evidence showing how concentrating reward/punishment power in one group member affects cooperation. …

monitors’). We review the literature on the relative merits of punishment and rewards when the distribution of incentive power …Recent work in experimental economics on the effectiveness of rewards and punishments for promoting cooperation mainly … evidence showing how concentrating reward/punishment power in one group member affects cooperation. …

encourage shirking. In contrast, ownpayoff effects suggest that both fines and bonuses discourage shirking. In an experiment we …

-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides howmuch income … punishment behavior. (3) Thereare discontinuous "jumps" in the behavior of responders. They either chooseno punishment (destroy … nothing) or the highest level of punishment (destroyeverything). (4) Expectations have a significant effect on the …

laboratory experiment in which subjects lack any private material incentive to report partners’ actions, we find that most …

them concerns the question of “who punishes”. In the first approach, punishment is executed by the group members themselves … individually, i.e., punishment is decentral in nature. The second approach is based on the idea that individuals may be willing to … delegate the punishment to a central, external authority. The key questions to answered are, whether individuals are willing …