In this paper we argue that authorities aid cooperation by means ofdirect coordination or the enforcement of re … mutually connected individuals with sufficient combined punishment potential have signalled their willingness to form such an …

anger, ‘social’ emotions like shame and guilt need to be present for punishment to be an effective deterrent of …This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated …

cooperation and sanctioning', 2007, <I>KritV - Kritische Vierteljahresschrift fur Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft</I>, 90, 1 … of the fundamental conflict between social welfare maximization and individual utility maximization. The basic workhorse … difference between them concerns the question of “who punishes”. In the first approach, punishment is executed by the group …

in the direction of more and in the direction of less cooperation. While the central theorems show that such paths out of …

The effects of stake size on cooperation and punishment are investigated using a public goods experiment. We find that … an increase in stake size does neither significantly affect cooperation nor, interestingly, the level of punishment. …

punishment behavior. (3) Thereare discontinuous “jumps” in the behavior of responders. They either chooseno punishment (destroy … nothing) or the highest level of punishment (destroyeverything). (4) Expectations have a significant effect on the … probabilityof punishment but not on the intensity of experienced emotion. We explainthis last result in terms of norm …

See also <I>Social ties and coordination on negative reciprocity: The role of affect</I>, <A href … punishment for an unkind action. It also studies how fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this … show that the different types of individuals predicted by models of social preferences, can be traced among the subjects …