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

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 …

purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham’s intuition in a public goods lab experiment …The most famous element in Bentham’s theory of punishment, the Panopticon Prison, expresses his view of the two … by manipulating how much information on punishment experienced by others is available to would-be offenders. Compared …

Punishment has been shown to be an effective reinforcement mechanism. Intentional or not, punishment will likely …: the voluntary contributions mechanism. We find that spillovers occur when others observe punishment outside their own … social dilemma. However, the direction of the spillover effect depends crucially on personal punishment history and whether …

-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low … probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger deterrent to corruption than a high probability of detection with low … penalty. In Experiment 1, two treatments are designed to study the effect of a low probability of detection with high penalty …

the use of loaded language significantly reduces the incidence of bribery and increases the level of punishment …. Punishment of bribery leads to reduced bribery in future. The evidence suggests that this game captures essential features of a … history of past play has little effect on the level of corruption. …