network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different …' buyer-seller linkages, we find significant improvements in firm performance as well as creation of new buyer-seller links …

case of perfect competition, an outside owner achieves the first-best; a cooperative typically does not because the rent …'s preferences may not reflect average preferences. Second, in the case where the members of a cooperative have common preference …

Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and … therefore of performance of social institutions. We argue that trust should be particularly important for the performance of … large organizations. In a cross-section of countries, evidence on government performance, participation in civic and …

Across the social sciences, a key question is how societies manage to enforce cooperative behavior in social dilemmas …, cooperation appears to be enforced through universal moral values; internalized guilt; altruistic punishment; and an apparent rise …

A novel experiment is used to show that the effect of a policy on the level of cooperation is greater when it is chosen …

overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the remainder exploited as a commons by those choosing to fish …