Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa …

asymmetric risk allocation not only increases the chances of cooperation but lowers the risk of overinvestment. For homogeneous … goods, a symmetric risk allocation is superior as it ensures sufficient investment incentives even if competition is very …

Conditions for the emergence of cooperation in a spatial common-pool resource game are studied. This combines in a … three strategies: defection, cooperation, and enforcement. Individual payoffs are affected by both global factors, namely …

We study the conditions for the emergence of cooperation in a spatial common-pool resource game. We consider three …

We present results from a novel experiment on the effect of a policy designed to encourage cooperation in a prisoner …'s dilemma game. We find that the effect of this policy on the level of cooperation is greater when it was chosen democratically …

While there is an extensive literature on the theory of in finitely repeated games, empirical evidence on how “the … 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 …

unique equilibrium where legal enforcement remains weak and individual values discourage cooperation. …

students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation …