contributions increase monotonically in punishment effectiveness. High effectiveness leads to near complete cooperation and welfare … improvements. Below a certain threshold, however, punishment cannot prevent the decay of cooperation. In these cases, punishment …

Development of human societies requires cooperation among unrelated individuals and obedience to social norms. Although … punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics … eliminate its detrimental effects on cooperation. In a public goods game designed to create tension between group and individual …

cooperation as observed in the lab and ways it can be exploited for fundraising purposes …

the viability of beneficial and malevolent cooperation: the former is normally profitable both in the short and the long …

Conditional cooperation is an important factor in voluntary cooperation. Fehr and Schmidt (1999) show that in public … good games conditional cooperation among rational players is feasible if cooperators are sufficiently inequality averse and … above minimum contribution level (symmetric cooperation). We generalize this result by showing, first, that there exist …

Does self-governance, a hallmark of democratic societies, foster or erode norms of generalized cooperation? Does this …-governing municipalities exhibit stronger norms of cooperation today. Referenda data on voter-turnout, women's suffrage, and minority …. Furthermore, norms of cooperation map into prosocial behaviors like charitable giving and environmental protection. Uniquely …

the severity of sanctions, we also identify an educative effect of frequent and high sanctions on further cooperation …

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …