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 …

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 …

actions seems most important. key-words: Informal Sanction, Social Norm, Social Capital, Strategic Sanction, Fairness …

theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted … towards the defectors but the latter also impose a considerable amount of spiteful punishment on the cooperators. However …, spiteful punishment vanishes if the punishers can no longer affect the payoff differences between themselves and the punished …

sanction scheme capable both of resolving and of exacerbating the free-rider problem, depending on parameter settings. Most …

of punishment. This paper presents the first controlled experiment to study a third important factor that has been mainly …Economic theory suggests that the deterrence of deviant behavior is driven by a combination of severity and certainty … will be punished is dissolved and the timing at which the punishment is actually imposed, as well as the combination …

of punishment. This paper presents the first controlled experiment to study a third important factor that has been mainly …Economic theory suggests that the deterrence of deviant behavior is driven by a combination of severity and certainty … will be punished is dissolved and the timing at which the punishment is actually imposed, as well as the combination …

This paper studies monitoring and punishment behavior by second and third parties in a cooperation experiment with … stage, but can decide to resolve the information imperfection at non-negative cost at the punishment stage. We examine how … monitoring and punishment respond to changes in monitoring costs, and exploit the evidence to gain new insights about …

of punishment. This paper presents the first controlled experiment to study a third important factor that has been mainly …Economic theory suggests that the deterrence of deviant behavior is driven by a combination of severity and certainty … will be punished is dissolved and the timing at which the punishment is actually imposed, as well as the combination …