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 …

international cooperation. Our game-theoretical model of asymmetric countries allows for a rigorous analysis of the strategic …

effects of participation in markets on non-market activities requiring cooperation. In our setup, market interaction takes …-Strangers. We compare the efficiency of cooperation with and without market experience controlling for earnings, allowing us to … effect on cooperation efficiency in Market-Partners, that is among those who had to compete with each other on on the same …

We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying rates at which a group grows. Using a laboratory … cooperation. We then study the effect on cooperation of exogenously varying rates of entry. Slow growth yields higher cooperation … endogenous growth generally also produces high cooperation levels, growth stalls at intermediate group sizes, leaving potential …

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods … public goods games, as the pessimistic conditional cooperators tend to avoid contribution to avoid exploitation, whereas the …

Over the last millennium, the clan and the corporation have been the loci of cooperation in China and Europe … bifurcation. We highlight that groups with which individuals identify are basic units of cooperation. Such loyalty groups …, and the implied pattern of cooperation …

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

cooperation systems that differ both in their level of in-group favoritism and in the tools that they employ to enforce … cooperation regimes. This paper uses an anthropological measure of the tightness of historical kinship systems to study the … structure of cooperation patterns and enforcement devices across historical ethnicities, contemporary countries, ethnicities …

-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 …

interpreted as evidence for the passing of cultural traits across generations and for cooperation being sustained by values rather …