. Simultaneously, individuals adapt their behavior, leading to an intricate interplay been network evolution and behavior evolution … increase of cooperation, which is here extended to all two-player social dilemmas. In addition, we discuss the role of the …

together rather than investing separately. We study the coordination and cooperation problems that might hinder successful … collaboration in a dynamic network setting. We develop an experiment in which coordination problems are mainly due to finding … partners for collaboration, while cooperation problems arise at the investment levels of partners who have already agreed to …

Cooperation is widely recognized to be fundamental for the well-balanced development of human societies. Several … different approaches have been proposed to explain the emergence of cooperation in populations of individuals playing the … cooperation for these classes of games. We find the conditions for which these Nash equilibria are asymptotically stable, and we …

Reciprocal cooperation can be studied in the Centipede game, in which two players alternate in choosing between a … investigated cooperation in four Centipede games differing in their payoffs at the game's end (positive versus zero) and payoff … high payoff inequality were found to reduce cooperation significantly. Contrary to previous predictions, combining these …

Until recently, theorists considering the evolution of human cooperation have paid little attention to institutional … maximize compliance? We investigate this question by modeling the co-evolution of law and cooperation in a public goods game …' updating of their contribution strategy and observe the effect on Citizen cooperation. We find that when States have unlimited …

Explaining human cooperation in large groups of non-kin is a major challenge to both rational choice theory and the … theory of evolution. Recent research suggests that group cooperation can be explained by positing that cooperators can punish … information conditions, where cheating is less obvious, punishment is much less effective in enforcing cooperation. Evidently, the …

We use experimental methods to investigate whether pledges of commitment can improve cooperation in endogenously … findings show that pledges of commitment alone can increase cooperation and welfare in committed partnerships. The introduction … partnerships fall solely on the individual choosing to break up, pledges of commitment fail to improve cooperation and welfare. …