We explore in an experiment what leads to the breakdown of partnerships. Subjects are assigned a partner and …

Does self-governance, a hallmark of democratic societies, foster or erode norms of generalized cooperation? Does this … effect persist, and if so, why? I investigate these questions using a natural experiment in Switzerland. In the middle … experiment, World Values Survey, and Swiss Household Panel consistently shows that individuals from historically self …

can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by … remains unclear. In each of six treatments that vary the cooperation premium and the informational basis for reputation …, that with a high cooperation premium and good information, investment in reputation grows across sets of finitely …

anonymous, subjects are better at predicting second-stage behavior, and maintain a substantially higher level of cooperation …

norms on cooperation. We find that under the signaling mechanism, less cooperative players disguise themselves in the rule …-following game, but this does not decrease cooperation overall. More importantly, the signaling mechanism has a heterogeneous effect … on cooperation in rule-following and rule-breaking groups: It increases cooperation in rule-following groups but …

. We interpret subjects behaviour in terms of conditional cooperation which is characterized by both future-oriented and …

, contributors and administrators establish a stable interaction with cooperation matching the level from a comparable Public Goods … that cooperation breeds trustworthiness and vice versa and that one-time disruptions are particularly damaging in settings …

We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate …

We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate …