in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …

cooperative task. The data show that clerical workers differ from college students in overall cooperation rates, strategy adoption … and use of punishment opportunities. Students cooperate more than workers. Cooperation increases in both subject pools … defection, and more likely to select strategies of conditional cooperation. Finally, students are more likely than workers to …

Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in … understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring and communication structures in the laboratory. Under all monitoring … environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well …

We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from … role of social preferences in conditional cooperation …

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 …