Direct experience of a peer's punishment might make non-punished peers reassess the probability and consequences of … facing punishment and hence induce a change in their behavior. We test this mechanism in a setting, China, in which we … observe the reactions to the same peer's punishment by listed firms with different incentives to react – state …

Direct experience of a peer's punishment might make non-punished peers reassess the probability and consequences of … facing punishment and hence induce a change in their behavior. We test this mechanism in a setting, China, in which we … observe the reactions to the same peer's punishment by listed firms with different incentives to react—state-owned enterprises …

Direct experience of a peer's punishment might make non-punished peers reassess the probability and consequences of … facing punishment and hence induce a change in their behavior. We test this mechanism in a setting, China, in which we … observe the reactions to the same peer's punishment by listed firms with different incentives to react - state …

the accountable state by conducting a two-level public goods experiment in which civic engagement can build a sanction …

Social preferences for the punishment of free riders are critical for generating cooperative behavior in human society …. Focusing on the receiving fees of Japan's public broadcaster, this study analyses how punishment of free riders, that is, the …

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 exogenous removal of the norm consensus opportunity reduces the efficiency of peer punishment and renders centralized …