’s constraints on issue linkage (cross-retaliation) welfare-enhancing? To facilitate international cooperation should governments … choices (e.g. to ‘conservative’ central bankers) are good or bad for international policy cooperation? …

We document the establishment and evolution of a cooperative norm among workers using evidence from a natural field … for cooperation. As a counterfactual, we analyse worker behaviour when workers are paid piece rates and thus have no … exposure cooperate more. Shocks to the workforce in the form of new worker arrivals disrupt cooperation in the short term but …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular but the electoral …

When countries of different sizes participate in a cooperative agreement, the potential gain from deviation determines …

Our results on the relationship between R&D spillovers and cooperation in R&D suggest that it is necessary to … simultaneous relation with cooperative agreements in R&D. …

lead to a unique equilibrium path where external enforcement remains weak and individual values discourage cooperation. …

in these models. We propose a way to take these pay-offs into account, and find that cooperation as equilibrium of the … parameter space, all cooperation equilibria are strictly risk dominated in the sense of Harsanyi and Selten (1988). We derive an … others defect, and argue it is a better measure for the ‘likelihood’ of cooperation than the critical level at which …

How can we explain the success of cooperative networks of firms that share innovations, such as Silicon Valley or the … network of firms may be valuable if the firm expects to benefit from future improvements made by other firms. A cooperative …’s actions following a deviation. A cooperative equilibrium is more likely to arise, the greater the number of firms in the …