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 …

of a job satisfaction survey. Cooperation is valuable because it improves the firm's ability to predict employee quits … combination of firm-level data and information from job satisfaction surveys, the empirical analysis reveals that the cooperation …

different benefits from cooperation. Although almost all heterogeneous groups agree to follow specific contribution rules with …

of cooperation during war, we find that individual cooperativeness robustly increases with the length of time a person …

Throughout human history, informal sanctions played a key role in the enforcement of social norms and the provision of … 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 …

discuss our findings with respect to the literature on in-group favoritism and the cognitive origins of human cooperation. …

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 …