piece-rate scheme, individuals in a winner-takes-all competition are significantly less cooperative in the public goods game …. A lottery treatment, where the winner is decided by luck, has the same effect. In a competition treatment with feedback …

first-price sealed-bid auction (FPSB). In theory, both tacit and overt collusion are always incentive compatible in EN while … overt collusion, stable cartels buy at a lower price in EN than in FPSB resulting in a lower average winning bid in EN. …

This paper tests whether upstream R&D cooperation leads to downstream collusion. We consider an oligopolistic setting … where firms enter in research joint ventures (RJVs) to lower production costs or coordinate on collusion in the product … Cooperation Research Act, we estimate a market share equation correcting for the endogeneity of RJV participation and R …

corresponding increased potential for product market collusion. We consider all trajectories that are candidates for an optimal … collusion could thus yield higher total surplus. …

, the less likely cooperation will be. …

We consider the possibility that cooperation in a prisoner's dilemma is fostered by people's voluntarily enhancement of … cooperate when either one of these mechanisms is allowed. In agreement with theory, subjects aiming for cooperation choose … higher vulnerability levels in Gradual than in Leap, which maps into higher mutual cooperation levels. …

In this paper we argue that authorities aid cooperation by means ofdirect coordination or the enforcement of re …