to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment … systems exist that avoid these costs and whether other, more centralized, punishment systems are superior and will be … preferred by the people. Here, we show that welfare-enhancing peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges …

to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment … preferred by the people. Here, we show that welfare-enhancing peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges … quickly if we introduce two relevant features of social life into the experiment: (i) subjects can migrate across groups with …

the accountable state by conducting a two-level public goods experiment in which civic engagement can build a sanction … taxation. In addition, we find that local social interaction among subgroups of participants also boosts cooperation. …

A number of studies have shown that peer punishment can sustain cooperation in public good games. This paper shows that … the format used to give subjects feedback is critical for the efficacy of punishment. Providing subjects with information …

This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in … public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or punishment profiles using the strategy … method. It is found that the selfish bias in conditional cooperation is made significantly worse when other players …

Until recently, theorists considering the evolution of human cooperation have paid little attention to institutional … punishment, a defining feature of large-scale human societies. Compared to individually-administered punishment, institutional … punishment offers a unique potential advantage: the ability to control how quickly legal rules of punishment evolve relative to …

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … cooperation with punishment which leads to a decrease in conditional cooperation. The power to punish means more responsibility … change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish …

rates and welfare improvements. Below a certain threshold, however, punishment cannot prevent the decay of cooperation found …This paper provides a comparative statics analysis of punishment in public-good experiments. We vary systematically the … effectiveness of punishment, that is, the factor by which punishment reduces the punished player's income, and we find that …

punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics … interests, we find that privately implemented punishment reduces cooperation relative to a baseline treatment without punishment … environments including schools, companies, markets and courts. -- punishment ; cooperation ; public goods game ; social norms …

. Providing both unobserved and observed punishment strongly enhances cooperation within groups – strikingly, even with less …Laboratory experiments by Fudenberg and Pathak (2010), and Vyrastekova, Funaki and Takeuch (2008) show that punishment … is able to sustain cooperation in groups even when it is observed only in the end of the interaction sequence. Our …