It is well known that communication often serves as a facilitator for cooperation in static games. Yet, communication … investigates cooperation and non-binding communication in a two-stage game. More specifically, two treatments are considered: one …-play communication only has a significant impact on cooperation when no intra-play communication is possible. The results suggest that …

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. …

cooperation is shaped by the way information about risk is presented (from description or from experience) and by differences in … lotteries with equivalent levels of risk. Cooperation rates in games vary with different levels of risk across decision … stochastic social dilemmas than in the lotteries. The findings highlight how an uncertain environment shapes cooperation and call …

externality. A within-subjects measure of reticence to impose harm does not explain cooperation. But the externality makes … participants more pessimistic. However conditional on their beliefs participants are more, not less cooperative if cooperation …

is able to sustain cooperation in groups even when it is observed only in the end of the interaction sequence. Our …. Providing both unobserved and observed punishment strongly enhances cooperation within groups - strikingly, even with less …

commons, Lukas Peter argues that this form of social organization can provide answers to the shortcomings of centralized … an ecological understanding of the commons and human freedom, more generally, thereby reinterpreting classical thinkers …

intertemporal substitution facilitates co-operation by decreasing their evaluation of short-run gains from deviations and increasing … that of losses from punishments. Goods' markets and money may hinder co-operation by allowing players to reallocate short … markets always make co-operation harder. Financial markets' imperfections facilitate co-operation by opposing this effect. …

In this paper we take up a model of Okada (1996) to describe the possibility of collective cooperation in a n …