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 specific effect of these spillovers depends on one’s personal punishment history which …

effect of the expected cost of punishment of an individual's decision to engage in a proscribed activity and the effect of … speed when the punishment regime for which they voted is implemented. Our results have important implications for a …

, and of gender and intelligence. -- Public good ; voluntary contribution ; formal sanction ; experiment ; penalty ; voting …

We explore targeted punishment as an explanation for collusion among many firms. In a series of Cournot oligopoly … experiments with various numbers of firms, we compare production decisions with and without the possibility to target punishment … at specific market participants. We find strong evidence that targeted punishment enables firms to establish and maintain …

“punishment game” subjects may choose to split a larger pie with a “bad” partner, or a smaller pie with a “good” partner. We find …

subjects to punish free-riders increases cooperation in the public goods game, and that the degree of punishment is sensitive … cadets' reluctance or willingness to punish non-cooperators in a public goods experiment. We employ a standard public goods … game with punishment, but in addition to knowing how much each player contributed to the group good, subjects also know the …

We report experimental findings on the impact of network structure on decentralized monitoring and punishment in public … exogenously determined network. We examine contributions and punishment decisions in three network environments - a Complete … hypothesis that asymmetry in the network leads to discriminatory punishment across potential targets on the basis of their …

This paper investigates whether altruistic punishment when cooperation norms are violated is sensitive to gender … effects. Our framework is a one-shot social dilemma game with third-party punishment in which subjects are informed of the … others' gender within their group. This allows us to test whether third-party punishment depends on the punisher's as well as …