economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular, but the electoral …

While the public good experiment has been used to analyze cooperation among various groups in Western Europe and North … altruistic punishment, to antisocial punishment, and ultimately to enhanced cooperation in Turkish society. …

We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i … are absent if groups perform at the same level and it therefore does not eliminate low-cooperation equilibria. We find … that all-can-win competition produces a universal increase in cooperation and benefits a majority of individuals if …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation. …

when group members have opportunities to punish low contributors. Cooperation may also be supported if individuals are … punishment costs. The negative effect of altruism on cooperation and material payoffs is greater the stronger is the reciprocity …

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 …