We study how the willingness to enter long-term bilateral relationships affects cooperation even when parties have … little information about each other, ex ante, and cooperation is otherwise unenforceable. We experimentally investigate a … research, longer interactions facilitate cooperation. However, many individuals avoid long-term commitment, with uncooperative …

approach is based on the following six "aspects" of a player's behavior: round-1 cooperation, lenience, forgiveness, loyalty …

We use experimental methods to investigate whether pledges of commitment can improve cooperation in endogenously formed … findings show that pledges of commitment increase cooperation in committed partnerships when costs to dissolve them are shared … break up, pledges of commitment fail to improve cooperation and instead decrease cooperation. …

We use experimental methods to investigate whether pledges of commitment can improve cooperation in endogenously formed … 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. …

dilemma in which self-interest should produce a sub-optimal outcome absent sanctions for non-cooperation. We then test …

higher the levels of cooperation. We compare the behavior from these in finitely repeated games with behavior from finitely … repeated games of the same expected length and we find that there is more cooperation in the in finitely repeated games …