Selfish, strategic players may benefit from cooperation, provided they reach agreement. It is therefore important to … construct mechanisms that facilitate such cooperation, especially in the case of asymmetric private information. The two major … games and with the major solution concepts to the Nash Bargaining Problem. Moreover, the solution is based on a simple …

We investigate the scope for cooperation within a community engaged in repeated reciprocal interactions. Players seek … ranking profiles that are most effective in sustaining cooperation in equilibrium, that is, profiles that support full … cooperation in equilibrium under the largest set of parameters. These are the profiles that spread the costs of helping others …

mode or were induced to rely either on emotion or reason. Cooperation was measured across a series of commonly used and … that average cooperation rates increased when emotions were induced rather than reason. At the trait level, our results … show that individual decision modes and cooperation rates were not correlated when subjects could rely on their primary …

first. Mutual cooperation is triggered by assuming thatwhat one passes on to the next is multiplied by a factor of 3 … sequentially. We nd thatpure indirect reciprocity enables mutual cooperation although strategicconsiderations and group size are …

experiment compares one-shot and indefinite horizon versions of random-proposer majority bargaining (the Baron-Ferejohn game … distribution and bargaining games from three seminal social preference experiments. …

The variable threat-bargaining model of Nash (1953) assumes that threats in the senseof binding commitments as to what … one will do if bargaining ends in conflict, are chosenbefore bargaining. By comparison, late threats to be chosen after … bargaining end in conflict,appear more natural and would be self-enforcing, i.e., require no commitment power. Insteadof …