We investigate the role of intentions in two-player two-stage games. For this purpose we systematically vary the set of opportunity sets the first mover can chose from and study how the second mover reacts not only to opportunities of gains but also of losses created by the choice of the first...

This paper provides an analytical model to study the co-evolution of trust and trustworthiness in a game-theoretic framework. Trust reflects an agent’s belief that other agents cooperate in a two-stage prisoner’s dilemma game. Altruist agents receive a utility from their opponents’...

This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different identification strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked...