-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the …

Management meted out punishment to enforce rules and encourage adherence. However, the effectiveness depended on how … implementation was fair in the two conditions, they did not agree on the punishment outcomes in condition two. The employees …

centralized and decentralized punishment regime. We find that (1) centralization by itself does not improve cooperation and … welfare compared to an informal, peer-to-peer punishment regime and (2) centralized punishment is equally sensitive to noise … as decentralized punishment, that is, it leads to significantly lower cooperation and welfare (total pro ts). Our results …

by running Prisoner's Dilemma and Third Party Punishment games on three different pools of subjects; students, 'Ordinary … game with Third Party punishment, punishing less as well as tending to punish cooperation (almost as much) as defection …

A number of studies have shown that peer punishment can sustain cooperation in public good games. This paper shows that … the format used to give subjects feedback is critical for the efficacy of punishment. Providing subjects with information …

punishment. However, neither option is without cost. What is the tradeoff between these strategies? In this study, we introduce … an exogenous punishment mechanism that varies the probability and magnitude of punishment to examine this tradeoff. In … our punishment system, sanctions are imposed on the lowest contributor according to a predetermined probability rather …

We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an … individual are on average significantly positively proportional to other members' punishment decisions to that individual …

We experimentally investigate whether third-party punishment is more effective than second-party punishment to increase … public goods contribution. In our experiment, third parties first played the standard public goods game and then made … punishment decisions as independent bystanders. We find that third parties punished more frequently, severely, and less …

social and biological sciences. One possible solution is peer punishment: when agents have an opportunity to sanction … designs, however, is the fact that real-world human punishment—the administration of justice—is intrinsically noisy. Here we … show that stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in the repeated public good game. As punishment noise …

This paper examines the differences of two alternative decentralized selective incentives, punishment and reward, in … of punishment(reward), that is the amount by which a punishment(reward) point reduces(increases) the recipient’s earning …. Results show that, (1) with regard to consequences, a “paradox of punishment and reward on cooperation and welfare” exists in …