Machine generated contents note: PART I INTRODUCTION: SOCIAL DILEMMAS AND TRUST 1 -- Chapter 1 Introduction 3 -- Elinor Ostrom and James Walker -- Chapter 2 Toward a Behavioral Theory Linking -- Trust, Reciprocity, and Reputation 19 -- Elinor Ostrom -- Chapter 3 Gaming Trust 80 -- Russell Hardin...

This paper examines a voluntarily provided common-property resource (CPR) in settings that vary the rules used for allocating the resource to providers. Three allocation mechanisms are investigated: “allocator,” “tremble,” and “egalitarian.” The allocator mechanism, based on...

Abundant evidence suggests that high levels of contributions to public goods can be sustained through self-governed monitoring and sanctioning. This experimental study investigates the effectiveness of decentralized sanctioning institutions in alternative punishment networks. Our results show...