It is well known that communication often serves as a facilitator for cooperation in static games. Yet, communication … renegotiation, potentially undermining the credibility of cooperative strategies. To explore this issue, this paper experimentally … investigates cooperation and non-binding communication in a two-stage game. More specifically, two treatments are considered: one …

It is well known that communication often serves as a facilitator for cooperation in static games. Yet, communication … renegotiation, potentially undermining the credibility of cooperative strategies. To explore this issue, this paper experimentally … investigates cooperation and non-binding communication in a two-stage game. More specifically, two treatments are considered: one …

cooperation behavior and we provide evidence on the microfoundation of this relation. We run a large-scale public goods experiment … over the internet in Denmark using a design that enables us to disentangle preferences for cooperation from beliefs about … others cooperation. We find that the standard trust question is a proxy for cooperation preferences rather than beliefs about …