scarcer and hence competitive pressure is higher. By contrast, levels of cooperation are very similar across areas. This … indicates that scarcity does not hamper cooperation, at least as long as a subsurvival level has not been exceeded. Our data …

highly impacted on the region with job destruction and SMEs closures. This has generated a inter-territorial cooperation …

design and test a provision mechanism which utilizes rank competition to mitigate free-riding in impure public goods. In our … ranks, the contributions are significantly lower and decline over time. We thus provide evidence of rank competition, in …