of punishment. In our experiment, subjects can steal from another participant's payoff. Deterrent incentives vary across …Crime has to be punished, but does punishment reduce crime? We conduct a neutrally framed laboratory experiment to test … the deterrence hypothesis, namely that crime is weakly decreasing in deterrent incentives, i.e. severity and probability …

This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament … incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …