-link structure. We test the implications of our model in a laboratory experiment. -- cooperation ; conflict, defence ; signaling … observe surprisingly high levels of cooperation and altruism within groups in conflict situations such as civil wars. We …

observe surprisingly high levels of cooperation and altruism within groups in conflict situations such as civil wars. We …

study the impact of different time horizons on cooperation in (quasi) continuous time prisoner's dilemmas. We find that … cooperation levels are similar or higher when the horizon is deterministic rather than stochastic. Moreover, a deterministic … deterministic horizon subjects show high initial cooperation and a strong end-of-period reversal to defection. Moreover, they do not …

observe surprisingly high levels of within - group cooperation in conflict situations such as civil wars. We provide an … model from cooperation in defence to cooperative and altruistic behavior in general …

groups but where entrepreneurs have a desire for cooperation and peace. We assert that it is members of the elites who start … the circumstances. We derive implications for peace and conflict. We find conflict induced poverty traps with self …-fulfilling expectations about conflict and we derive implications for peace building strategies. …

groups but where entrepreneurs have a desire for cooperation and peace. We assert that it is members of the elites who start … the circumstances. We derive implications for peace and conflict. We find conflict induced poverty traps with self …-fulfilling expectations about conflict and we derive implications for peace building strategies. -- Conflict ; investments ; trust …

We experimentally test the social motives behind individual participation in intergroup conflict by manipulating the … framing and symmetry of conflict. We find that behavior in conflict depends on whether one is harmed by actions perpetrated by … to do what is good for the group and contribute to the conflict. On the other hand, if people perceive to be personally …

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 …

opportunity for profitable cooperation. Our experimental method creates two groups of subjects who are similar but have different … intelligence has a large and positive long-run effect on cooperative behavior when there is a conflict between short-run gains and … long-run losses. Initially similar, cooperation rates for groups with different intelligence levels diverge, declining in …

initial cooperation rates are similar, it increases in the groups with higher intelligence to reach almost full cooperation … differences in the response to past cooperation of the partner. In higher intelligence subjects, cooperation after the initial … difference is absent. Cooperation of higher intelligence subjects is payoff sensitive, thus not automatic: in a treatment with …