symmetric and asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery, one may wonder which punishment strategy is more effective in curbing … corruption. For this purpose, we designed and ran a lab experiment in Bonn (Germany) and Shanghai (China) with exactly the same … design. The results show that, in both countries, with symmetric punishment recipients are less likely to grant the socially …

This paper studies experimentally how the endogeneity of sanctioning institutions affects the severity of punishment in … when subjects can vote on the institutional setting. We find that punishment is significantly higher when the sanctioning … institution is exogenous, which can be explained by a difference in the effectiveness of punishment. Subjects respond to …

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

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

punishment, when members of a group decide by majority voting whether to inflict punishment on another member, relative to … individual peer-to-peer punishment. Democratic punishment leads to more cooperation and higher average payoffs, both under … perfect and imperfect monitoring of contributions, primarily by curbing anti-social punishment and thereby establishing a …

to be both consistent across decisions and relatively stable over time. -- Experiment ; public-good ; punishment ; social …Carpenter and Matthews (2009) examine the cooperation norms determining people's punishment behavior in a social … punishment. Using multiple punishment stages and self-contained episodes of interaction, we disentangle the effects of …

no-punishment network. -- public goods ; experiment ; punishment ; cooperation ; networks … punishment opportunities are restricted to agents who are linked through alternative punishment networks. We find that the … structure of the punishment network significantly impacts contributions to the public good, but not overall efficiencies …

punishment, so that they increase overall welfare? We report an experiment in which players can issue non-binding threats to … their actual punishment level. We find that threats increase the level of contributions significantly. Efficiency is … punishment leads to lower threats, cooperation and welfare, restoring them to levels equal to or below the levels attained in the …

The effects of stake size on cooperation and punishment are investigated using a public goods experiment. We find that … an increase in stake size does neither significantly affect cooperation nor, interestingly, the level of punishment. …

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … cooperation with punishment which leads to a decrease in conditional cooperation. The power to punish means more responsibility …