Cooperation under alternative punishment institutions: an experiment
In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Band 71, Heft 2, S. 273-282
While peer punishment has been shown to increase group cooperation, there is open debate on how cooperative norms can emerge and on what motives drive individuals to punish. In a public good experiment we compared alternative punishment institutions and found (1) higher cooperation levels under a consensual punishment institution than under autonomous individual punishment; (2) similar cooperation levels under sequential and simultaneous punishment institutions.