economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular but the electoral …

"). The outsiders do not underbid the insiders since, were they to do so, the insiders would withdraw cooperation from them …

How to sustain cooperation is a key challenge for any society. Different social organizations have evolved in the …

a model that builds on two separate literatures: the literature on international monetary cooperation on the one hand …

. The aversion to intertemporal substitution, a regular feature of real world agents, facilitates cooperation by decreasing …. Access to goods’ markets and ‘money’ may then hinder cooperation by undoing these effects, allowing agents to save and … markets make cooperation even harder to sustain, unless the market interest rate is sufficiently below agents’ discount rate …

for cooperation. As a counterfactual, we analyse worker behaviour when workers are paid piece rates and thus have no … exposure cooperate more. Shocks to the workforce in the form of new worker arrivals disrupt cooperation in the short term but …