endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely … explanation for this surprising result. -- role selection in teams ; team performance ; takeover game ; winner's curse …

and the socioeconomic background of parents play a vital role in the early development of human cooperation. …Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social … dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 …

I discuss recent findings from behavioral economic experiments in the lab and in the field on the role of leaders in … human cooperation. Three implications for leadership are derived, which are summarized under the notion CC strategy. Firstly …

Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in … environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well … understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring and communication structures in the laboratory. Under all monitoring …

equilibrium strategy. Exclusion has a positive impact on cooperation when it is followed by a quick rather than a slow … retaliation. Post-exclusion cooperation and forgiveness depend not only on the length of exclusion but also on the perceived …