We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from … role of social preferences in conditional cooperation …

Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa …

hampers cooperation, as higher intelligence players are less cooperative once they are made aware that they play against …

’ VCMP to rule out other potential explanations. We use a beliefs-based model, rooted in psychological game theory, to derive …

related testable predictions, and design an experiment based on a variant of the dictator game that tests for empirical …

theory, while sociological theories of social ties and intergroup comparisons suggest that bilateral cooperation can be … strengthened if there exist outsiders that gain from cooperative break down. We investigate this in a laboratory experiment … implemented by letting subjects make a positive contribution to a public good if they choose to defect from cooperation, i …

prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results … analysis highlights the important role of incentives in the matching of motivated agents engaged in social good production …

Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is … prevailing cooperation levels among employees before they can set incentives to promote cooperation. In addition, employees … matched to informed managers learn that the manager could base their incentive choice on cooperation levels. We find no …

the American and the English fee-shifting rule. We conduct an experiment and find that litigation expenditures and …