Engel, Christoph; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2010
purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham’s intuition in a public goods lab experiment … punishment of others at the individual level, they contribute much less to the public project. Our results confirm the special … prevention effect but show that the deterrence effect is smaller the more information on individual punishment is available. …