We examine how conditional cooperation is related to the material payoffs in a Sequential Prisoner's Dilemma experiment … the material loss to the first-mover when the second-mover defects in response to cooperation. We find that few second …

’s material payoff structure affects cooperation is incomplete. In this paper we investigate the effect of variation in material … payoffs on cooperation, focussing on one-shot PD games where efficiency requires mutual cooperation. Following Mengel (2018 … defectors and co-operators respectively, while an index of efficiency captures the gains from cooperation. We conduct two …

mechanisms for sustaining cooperation. We present a novel intuitive combination of strategies that sustains cooperation in … essentially the unique mechanism to support full cooperation, and it is robust to various perturbations. Finally, we extend the … characterize which observation structure is optimal for sustaining cooperation. …

's material payoff structure affects cooperation is incomplete. In this paper we investigate the effect of variation in material … payoffs on cooperation, focusing on one-shot PD games where efficiency requires mutual cooperation. We report results from … our experiments and the complementary analyses is that cooperation in a PD increases with the gains of mutual cooperation …