question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of … interpreted as evidence for the passing of cultural traits across generations and for cooperation being sustained by values rather …

This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent …-extraction and cooperation shocks trigger short-run adjustments in the agents' behaviour. However, shocks do not have permanent … effects. This explains the long-run resilience of cooperation to rent extraction. We also show that cooperative attitudes and …

In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation … finding is that in our setting conditional cooperation is not a strong enough force to increase contribution levels. Although … cooperation and puts some doubt on the idea that it is crucial in overcoming social dilemma problems …

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …

individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them - as well as subjects' elicited beliefs - to explain …We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit … based on this data, we show that the decline of cooperation can be driven by the fact that most people have a preference to …

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish … cooperation. We find that the possibility of being punished increases the strength of conditional cooperation. At the same time …

assumption that the salience of the advantages of mutual cooperation plays a decisive role. This hypothesis is successfully …

perceived as an outcome of fair cooperation …