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 also that the … electoral outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is …

This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in … method. It is found that the selfish bias in conditional cooperation is made significantly worse when other players …

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 …

bonus is substantial. In this case, however, the data suggests that tournament competition crowds out voluntary cooperation …

whether, for only one game, there is an institution enforcing cooperation and vary also whether the institution is imposed … exogenously or arises endogenously through voting. Our results show that the presence of an institution in one game generally … enhances cooperation in the other game thus documenting a positive spillover effect. These spillover effects are economically …

competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We …

concept of cooperation and explore the extent to which this intervention brings about changes in peopleﾒs voluntary … contributions to the public good and self-reported emotional responses. Our findings suggest that priming cooperation increases …