elected judge. Migration opportunities and normative consensus building are key to the quick emergence of an efficient culture … of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect … prosocial judges (if institutionally possible), and immediately establish a social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears …

pillar is internalized norms of cooperation, sustained by emotions such as guilt and shame. The second pillar is the … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish …

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

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

, culture, and endogenous emotions are the key determinants of contributions and punishments. The emotions of shame, frustration …

-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 …