We use a public-good experiment to analyze behavior in a decentralized asymmetric punishment institution. The … institution is asymmetric in the sense that players differ in the effectiveness of their punishment. At the aggregate level, we … observe remarkable similarities between outcomes in asymmetric and symmetric punishment institutions. Controlling for the …

We use a public-good experiment to analyze behavior in a decentralized asymmetric punishment institution. The … institution is asymmetric in the sense that players differ in the effectiveness of their punishment. At the aggregate level, we … observe remarkable similarities between outcomes in asymmetric and symmetric punishment institutions. Controlling for the …

We use a public-good experiment to analyze behavior in a decentralized asymmetric punishment institution. The … institution is asymmetric in the sense that players differ in the effectiveness of their punishment. At the aggregate level, we … observe remarkable similarities between outcomes in asymmetric and symmetric punishment institutions. Controlling for the …

We investigate whether peer punishment is an efficient mechanism for enforcing cooperation in an experiment with a long … time horizon. Previous evidence suggests that the costs of peer punishment can be outweighed by the benefits of higher … cooperation, if (i ) there is a sufficiently long time horizon and (ii ) punishment cannot be avenged. However, in most instances …

punishment opportunities. One important challenge for the mechanism is imperfect information about cooperative behavior. It has … been shown that imperfect information increases misdirected punishment and thereby hampers the efficacy of the punishment … subjects choose to monitor either perfectly or not at all. Little punishment takes place with imperfect information. The large …

actions of bad actors. However, in many situations bad acts go undetected and unknown to others.We use a lab experiment to …

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 …

This paper deals with the effects of introducing adequate punishment opportunities in experiments with public goods …. Decentralized punishment means that the contributing subjects have a possibility to sanction free riders without the intervention of … an external authority. The very first experiments demonstrated a significantly positive effect of a punishment …

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 investigate whether peer punishment is an efficient mechanism for enforcing cooperation in an experiment with a long … time horizon. Previous evidence suggests that the costs of peer punishment can be outweighed by the benefits of higher … cooperation, if (i) there is a sufficiently long time horizon and (ii) punishment cannot be avenged. However, in most instances in …