success of the program, i.e., whether burglaries continue to occur. We show that the punishment of burglars plays a dual role … in this context. On the one hand, punishment deters burglaries if the level of punishment is sufficiently high. On the … punishment is suboptimal. In a second part, we extend our model to the study of norm enforcement in public goods dilemmas and …

Experiments using the public goods game have repeatedly shown that in cooperative social environments, punishment makes … cooperation flourish, and withholding punishment makes cooperation collapse. In less cooperative social environments, where … antisocial punishment has been detected, punishment was detrimental to cooperation. The success of punishment in enhancing …

whether to engage in costly punishment of a free rider in a survey-based experiment with 1423 students from seven study areas …

Previous findings on punishment have focused on environments in which the outcomes are known with certainty. In this … paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner … specified probabilistically under a transparent information condition. In particular, we study two types of punishment …

Previous findings on punishment have focused on environments in which the outcomes are known with certainty. In this … paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner … specified probabilistically under a transparent information condition. In particular, we study two types of punishment …