Throughout human history, informal sanctions by peers were ubiquitous and played a key role in the enforcement of … key to the quick emergence of an efficient culture of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate … social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the …

goods provision - the quick emergence of a widely accepted social cooperation norm that demands high contributions but - in … consensus as well as the high cooperation demands required by the norm break down. However, when peer punishment is possible … cooperation and welfare - the opportunity to form a social norm unambiguously causes high public good contributions and group …

Throughout human history, informal sanctions by peers were ubiquitous and played a key role in the enforcement 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 …

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 …

punished. As a consequence, the existence of an opportunity for costly punishment causes a large increase in cooperation levels … opportunity almost complete cooperation can be achieved and maintained although, under the standard assumptions of rationality and … selfishness, there should be no cooperation at all. We also show that free riding causes strong negative emotions among …

Throughout human history, informal sanctions by peers were ubiquitous and played a key role in the enforcement of … key to the quick emergence of an efficient culture of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate … social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears to guide subjects’ cooperation and punishment choices, including the …

We experimentally investigate the nature of cooperation in various repeated games, with subjects from Romania and USA …. We find stark cross-country differences in the propensity to sustain multilateral cooperation through bilateral rewards …

This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the … fishermen who exhibit a higher propensity for cooperation in a laboratory public goods experiment, and those who show more … useful to capture important dimensions of field behavior. -- Cooperation ; common pool resource ; experiments …