monitors'). We review the literature on the relative merits of punishment and rewards when the distribution of incentive power … evidence showing how concentrating reward/punishment power in one group member affects cooperation. …

We designed a natural-field experiment in the context of local public transportation to test whether rewards in the …

them concerns the question of “who punishes”. In the first approach, punishment is executed by the group members themselves … individually, i.e., punishment is decentral in nature. The second approach is based on the idea that individuals may be willing to … delegate the punishment to a central, external authority. The key questions to answered are, whether individuals are willing …

sanction those who are detected performing the bad act of free-riding. There has been considerable research on the type of … actions of bad actors. However, in many situations bad acts go undetected and unknown to others.We use a lab experiment to …

This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game … with punishment in which subjects are given the opportunity to punish other group members (democratic punishment regime … punishment regime). We employ a within-subjects design where subjects experience both environments and control for order effects …