In this working paper we report on two trust games: a BDM-like game which is interpreted through its use of the possibly suggestive words "show up fee," "sends," "tripled," "send back"; and an uninterpreted spatial game that does not use these words suggestive or not. In the spatial game we...

We introduce new treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism with opportunities to punish, to see how contributions and punishments change when (a) each dollar lost in punishment must be awarded to another team member and/or when (b) obtaining information on individuals’ contributions is...