behaviour in a public-good experiment well? And if not, where does the observed behaviour diverge from the prediction? This … equilibrium prediction that is based on the elicited conditional-cooperation preferences. Moreover, more often than not, beliefs …

incentive schemes have gradually crowded out cooperation as an organization device. Our explanation does not draw on free …-riding, the obvious Achilles’ heel of cooperation, but relies completely on fundamental group contest mechanisms. By investigating …

redistribution. People earn money in a real effort experiment and can then decide how to distribute it among themselves and another …

Machiavelli advises against delegating the distribution of favors. We test this claim in an experiment, in which an …

’ truth telling is absolute or depends on the size of a lie. In a laboratory experiment we compare punishment for different …

This paper presents an experiment on the loyalty enhancing effect potentially created by retroactive price reduction …

This paper presents results from an experiment studying a two-person 4x4 pure coordination game. We seek to identify a …

maximal contribution. Efficient voluntary cooperation in the repeated best shot game therefore requires that only one player … should contribute in a given round. To provide better chances for such cooperation, we enrich the sequential best shot base … party. Participants easily establish cooperation in the finitely repeated game. When cooperation evolves, it mostly takes …