experimentprompted by Weimann's (1994) result, from adeceptive design, that subjects are more sensitive to free-ridingthan cooperation on …

The expectation that non-cooperators will be punished can help to sustain cooperation, but there are competing claims … undermine cooperation in social dilemmas. In a set of experimental treatments, we find that availability of higher …-order punishment increases cooperation and efficiency when subjects have full information on the pattern of punishing, including its …

outlines the evidence for a more inclusive picture of humans in which ethics and morality play a central role. It argues for …

The provision of public goods often relies on voluntary contributions and cooperation. While most of the experimental …

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 …

A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …