monitors'). We review the literature on the relative merits of punishment and rewards when the distribution of incentive power … evidence showing how concentrating reward/punishment power in one group member affects cooperation. …

This paper studies monitoring and punishment behavior by second and third parties in a cooperation experiment with … stage, but can decide to resolve the information imperfection at non-negative cost at the punishment stage. We examine how … monitoring and punishment respond to changes in monitoring costs, and exploit the evidence to gain new insights about …

punishment option and compare it to the behavior of individuals in a laboratory experiment. We also consider different team …

inclinations. The third pillar are sanctions meted out to anyone who does not cooperate; ideally punishment can work as a mere … findings, in particular with regard to punishment behaviour. The chapter concludes with remarks on future research. …

experiment in two cities in Ghana. Using a public good game with third-party punishment, we find that punisher's age is an … important determinant of cooperation. Our results indicate the elder are more efficient using punishment than youngsters. …

Punishment institutions for curtailing free-riding in social dilemmas rely on information about individuals’ behavior … cooperation and efficiency in a social dilemma change in response to varying how monitoring and punishment are jointly organized …. decentralized) and three punishment regimes (self- vs. peer- vs. del-egated punishment) in a repeated public goods game. As …

This paper provides experimental evidence showing that members of a majority group systematically shift punishment on … injustice affecting a member of one's own group shapes punishment of an unrelated bystander ("a scapegoat"). We manipulate the … member of one's own group is harmed, the punishment "passed" on innocent individuals more than doubles when they are from the …