Explicit and implicit incentives and opportunities for mutually beneficial voluntary cooperation co-exist in many … crowding out of voluntary cooperation even after incentives have been abolished. This crowding out occurs also in repeated … voluntary cooperation while exposed to incentives. Overall, our findings show that the behavioral consequences of explicit …

Explicit and implicit incentives and opportunities for mutually beneficial voluntary cooperation co-exist in many … crowding out of voluntary cooperation even after incentives have been abolished. This crowding out occurs also in repeated … voluntary cooperation while exposed to incentives. Overall, our findings show that the behavioral consequences of explicit …

remains unclear. In each of six treatments that vary the cooperation premium and the informational basis for reputation …, that with a high cooperation premium and good information, investment in reputation grows across sets of finitely … can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by …

The observability of partners' past play is known to theoretically improve cooperation in an infinitely repeated … prisoner's dilemma game under random matching. This paper presents evidence from an incentivized experiment that reputational … information per se may not improve cooperation. A structural estimation suggests that a certain percentage of players act …