preferred by the people. Here, we show that welfare-enhancing peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges …. The exogenous removal of the norm consensus opportunity reduces the efficiency of peer punishment and renders centralized … peer sanctioning with a norm consensus opportunity or an equally efficient institution with centralized punishment by an …

incentives as entitlements that can be lost by failing to reach a performance target, rather than as additional rewards that can …

Strong Reciprocity theorists claim that cooperation in social dilemma games can be sustained by costly punishment … costly punishment raises cooperation in laboratory conditions. Its efficacy in the field however is controversial. I … theorists is unsupported by ethnographic evidence on decentralised punishment and by historical evidence on common pool …

In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in …

Research examining the effect of weak punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead to … of social norms and their interplay with weak punishment in the context of a trust game. Across six conditions, we … systematically vary the combination of existence of weak punishment and norm information. Norm information may refer either to what …

of punishment. This paper presents the first controlled experiment to study a third important factor that has been mainly … will be punished is dissolved and the timing at which the punishment is actually imposed, as well as the combination …: either no delay (immediate resolution and immediate punishment) or maximum delay (both resolution and punishment as much as …

of punishment. This paper presents the first controlled experiment to study a third important factor that has been mainly … will be punished is dissolved and the timing at which the punishment is actually imposed, as well as the combination …: either no delay (immediate resolution and immediate punishment) or maximum delay (both resolution and punishment as much as …

problem is multilateral punishment, whereby groups of principals jointly punish cheating agents by giving them bad reputations …. But how does such punishment work when there is uncertainty regarding whether an agent actually cheated or was just the … to employ multilateral punishment. We find that a modest amount of uncertainty increases overall welfare because …