; punishment ; reward ; endogenous institutional choice ; voting ; experiment … choice, groups typically vote for the reward option, even though punishment is actually more effective in sustaining high …

choice, groups typically vote for the reward option, even though punishment is actually more effective in sustaining high …

endogenous choice, groups typically vote for the reward option, even though punishment is actually more effective in sustaining …

We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate … irrespective of punishment and therefore have a lower demand for a costly punishment institution than groups of like-minded free … riders, who are unable to cooperate without punishment. We also predict that the difference in the demand for punishment is …

Ostracism, or exclusion by peers, has been practiced since ancient times as a severe form of punishment against … behavior and the functioning of a social group. We present data from a laboratory experiment, in which participants face a … exclude members of their group by means of majority voting. Our main treatment features an environment with heterogeneity in …

We report experimental findings on the impact of network structure on decentralized monitoring and punishment in public … exogenously determined network. We examine contributions and punishment decisions in three network environments - a Complete … hypothesis that asymmetry in the network leads to discriminatory punishment across potential targets on the basis of their …