dilemma game results in stage-one cooperation rates of between 95-100%. Content analysis of between opponent communication … focuses on the increased earnings cooperation can achieve, with minimal discussion of punishment for failing to cooperate …. Restoring cooperation after an early stage-game defection typically requires compensating the aggrieved player. Between opponent …

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 …