A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …

A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …

cooperation and has provided efficient feedback measured in social dilemma and public good experiments. A simple cost …

with repeated interaction. Cooperation in the empty list is high in early periods, but is decreasing. In the full list …, cooperation starts low, but is actually increasing, surpassing cooperation in the empty list treatment in later periods. Two … factors, diffusion of responsibility and unraveling of cooperation seem to drive the results. …

Communication is well known to increase cooperation rates in social dilemma situations, but the exact mechanisms behind … experimental findings, we observe a strong increase in cooperation when face-to-face communication is allowed before decision … to higher cooperation rates, albeit not as high as in the condition in which discussions about the social dilemma are …