Decline and break-up of institutionalized cooperation, at all levels, has occurred frequently. Some of its concomitants … success of institutionalized cooperation and of increasing system complexity, when cognitive conditions for effective …

different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment …, perceptions of competition faced on-the-job and the treatment effect of job incentives explain these differences in cooperation to … as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report …

for cooperation, this article proposes a novel theory in which the emergence of norms can be understood as a bargaining …

We investigate the scope for cooperation within a community engaged in repeated reciprocal interactions. Players seek … ranking profiles that are most effective in sustaining cooperation in equilibrium, that is, profiles that support full … cooperation in equilibrium under the largest set of parameters. These are the profiles that spread the costs of helping others …

post announcement mechanism does not have a significant effect on the cooperation rate. However, the nudge leads to a … striking increase in the cooperation rate. We provide suggestive evidence that the nudge we use provides subjects with a focal …

Community enforcement is an important device for sustaining efficiency in some repeated games of cooperation. We … investigate cooperation when information about players' reputations spreads to their future partners through links in a social … network that connects them. We find that information supports cooperation by increasing trust between players, and obtain the …