cooperation in a subsequent social dilemma game. The issues we study are part of the broader topic of whether there are behavioral … cooperation for pairs of market-winners, market-losers and mixed pairs and study both the cases where interaction in the social … experience has adverse effects on the efficiency of cooperation on both market-winner and market-loser pairs. In market …

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 …

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 …

competition ; resource allocation …

We experimentally investigate the nature of cooperation in various repeated games, with subjects from Romania and USA …. We find stark cross-country differences in the propensity to sustain multilateral cooperation through bilateral rewards …

We present the first causal evidence on the persistent impact of enduring competition on prosociality. Inspired by the … literature on tournaments within firms, which shows that competitive compensation schemes reduce cooperation in the short-run, we … competition period. 4-year follow-up data indicate that the effect persists and generalizes, suggesting a change in traits and not …