. 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 …

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 …

find a large and positive effect of endogenous institutional choice on the level of cooperation in comparison to … exogenously implemented institutions. This suggests that democratic participation rights enhance cooperation in groups. With … high levels of cooperation. Our results are evaluated against the predictions of social preference models. …

We examine strategic information transmission in a controlled laboratory experiment of a cheap talk game with one … communication between the sender and the receiver in a way consistent with the theoretical predictions. Deviations from the …

Our results on the relationship between R&D spillovers and cooperation in R&D suggest that it is necessary to …

lead to a unique equilibrium path where external enforcement remains weak and individual values discourage cooperation. …

in these models. We propose a way to take these pay-offs into account, and find that cooperation as equilibrium of the … parameter space, all cooperation equilibria are strictly risk dominated in the sense of Harsanyi and Selten (1988). We derive an … others defect, and argue it is a better measure for the ‘likelihood’ of cooperation than the critical level at which …