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 …

emissions. Still, international cooperation on greenhouse gas emissions reductions suffers from incentives to free-ride and to …

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

This paper examines the effects of positive and negative framing on cooperation in voluntary public goods provision … experiments in which subjects have different value orientations. The major finding of this experiment is that while there is a … study of (1995). Keyword(s): Public goods experiment; Free riding; Framing effects; Value orientations …

In repeated public good experiments, reciprocity helps to sustain high levels of cooperation. Can this be achieved by … location. This mechanism of individually targeted sanctions helps to foster initial cooperation. It decreases over time …, however. Location choices are used to reciprocate, but may not suffice to stabilize voluntary cooperation as an effect …

on cooperation in public goods games, a pervasive but largelyunexplored feature in the literature …

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