This paper provides a new way to identify conditional cooperation in a real-time version of the standard voluntary contribution mechanism. Our approach avoids most drawbacks of the traditional procedures because it relies on endogenous cycle lengths, which are defined by the number of...

In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir oökonomische Ansätze zur Bewertung alternativer Kooperationsformen in Supply- Chains. Dabei soll insbesondere gezeigt werden, dass diese Bewertungen die Grundlage fü r eine Wirtschaftlichkeitsanalyse des überbetrieblichen Einsatzes vonInformations- und...

This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...

In social dilemmas, there is tension between cooperation that promotes the common good and the pursuit of individual interests. International climate change negotiations provide one example: although abatement costs are borne by individual countries, the benefits are shared globally. We study a...