bear a higher burden of punishment costs than non-police subjects. When the norm enforcement institution is endogenous, all …

actions of bad actors. However, in many situations bad acts go undetected and unknown to others. We use a lab experiment to …

Social preferences for the punishment of free riders are critical for generating cooperative behavior in human society …. Focusing on the receiving fees of Japan's public broadcaster, this study analyses how punishment of free riders, that is, the …

welfare is reduced is that punishment can express anger about free-riding. If this is the case, then tools that regulate … aggression. In this lab experiment, we find that adopting an objective attitude (Objective), through a form of emotion regulation …

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 …

This paper provides evidence that free riders are heavily punished even if punishment is costly and does not provide … punished. As a consequence, the existence of an opportunity for costly punishment causes a large increase in cooperation levels … because potential free riders face a credible threat. We show, in particular, that in the presence of a costly punishment …