Showing 1 - 10 of 668
Considerable experimental evidence shows that although costly peer-punishment enhances cooperation in repeated public …-good games, heavy punishment in early rounds leads to average period payoffs below the non-cooperative equilibrium benchmark. In … fall prey to a poverty trap or, to avoid this, abstain from punishment altogether. We show that neither is the case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536056
We use a laboratory experiment to test the impacts of uncertainty, the magnitude of fines and aversion against making …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113273
able to emerge to internalize the externalities that caused the private system to generate too little deterrence. The model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109312
This paper investigates the impact of three age thresholds in British criminal law on self-reported offending: the possibility of custody at age 15, the switch from juvenile to adult law at age 18 and the switch from young offender institutions to adult prisons at age 21. Using longitudinal data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113984
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260305
short-term punishment institution (i.e., a crackdown) on bribery behavior in a lab setting. We conduct lab experiments in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118553
study the impact of non-deterrent formal sanctions on voluntary contributions to a public good in a laboratory experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107459
legal immunity for bribe-givers, while retaining culpability for bribe-takers. Results from our experiment indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110936
I conducted an artefactual field experiment to identify whether guilt reduces crime, and how the crime reduction … sensitivity and belief. I found supporting evidence of changes in belief. My experiment is novel in that it develops an approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113251
Abstract: I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of murder in the United States (1900-2004). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835859