experiments consider networks of coordination and cooperation, buyer-seller networks, and network formation …This paper provides a survey of recent experimental work in economics focusing on social and economic networks. The …

cooperation. In between two identical public goods games, participants play a mini dictator game that, depending on the treatment …

large body of research demonstrates the power of “reciprocity” for inducing cooperation: When others know that you have … they think others are also cooperating; and people can develop habits of cooperation that shape their default inclinations …

together rather than investing separately. We study the coordination and cooperation problems that might hinder successful … how much their partners invest. Moreover, subjects deal better with the coordination and cooperation problems as they gain … collaboration in a dynamic network setting. We develop an experiment in which coordination problems are mainly due to finding …

future choices. These considerations motivate a rich research programme on how social networks shape individual and …

coordination in normal-form games with multiple equilibria - the more equitable equilibrium might be selected either because …-subjects experimental design, furthermore, we study the relative performance of the equity principle in six simple 2x2 coordination games … seems to be behind most of the coordination failures that we observe. …

deliver an understanding of why specific equilibrium networks are selected or whether they are all actually reachable from any …