This paper deals with the subject of third-party punishment. The paper compares, by means of an economic experiment, punishment by a third party (Stand-Alone case) with punishment by third parties (In-Group environment). This deliberate introduction of a second potential punisher is neither...

A real-effort experiment is conducted in order to detect preferences for one of three different models of Welfare State characterized by different schemes of tax-and-transfers. Experimental subjects have to choose (both under and without veil of ignorance concerning their position in the society...

This paper analyses, by means of an economic experiment, the impact of (judicial) review on third party punishment. Whereas the existing literature has studied extensively third party costly punishment as such(both by one or two potential punishers), it has not addressed the consequences of a...