can promote or deter cooperation. We use decisions in an initially played trust game to create five environments that … voluntary contribution decision in our experiment's second phase. We find that perceived high trusting environments are treated …

iterated trust dilemma that varies the values of n and d in a between-subjects design. In all cases, trust-based cooperation …

sustainability of cooperation. Both contract generosity and the feedback system do not provide explicit economic incentives for … cooperation. We find that when there is no feedback system, contract generosity increases the sustainability of cooperation and … trust in fellow employees. Introducing the feedback system improves the sustainability of cooperation and trust in fellow …

An effective way to foster cooperation is to monitor behaviour and sanction freeriding. Yet, previous studies have … shown that cooperation quickly declines when sanctioning mechanisms are removed. We test if explicitly expressing trust in … players' capability to maintain cooperation after the removal of sanctions, i.e. vertical communication of trust, has the …