unique equilibrium where legal enforcement remains weak and individual values discourage cooperation. …

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 …

Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa …

zumindest ihre grundlegenden Verhaltenshypothesen testen zu können. Dieser Beitrag stellt ein einfaches Hörsaal-Experiment vor …, das Adam Smiths Hypothese von der "unsichtbaren Hand" im Marktgeschehen empirisch überprüft. Das Experiment zeigt zudem … experiments to test at least the basic assumptions of the economic theory of human behavior. This paper describes a simple …

cooperation and sanctioning', 2007, KritV - Kritische Vierteljahresschrift fur Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft, 90, 1-2, 140 … can increase the cooperation level of individuals in the group. …

This paper introduces a two-sided methodological framework for studies on cooperation based on a new game design … decision problem. Decision makers can choose an individual level of cooperation from a given range of possible actions. Within … applying our framework. Palestinians show a substantially higher cooperation level in the positive externality treatment. In …

We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i … are absent if groups perform at the same level and it therefore does not eliminate low-cooperation equilibria. We find … that all-can-win competition produces a universal increase in cooperation and benefits a majority of individuals if …

We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and … harm those who defect, encouraging a norm of cooperation towards the group. Adding competition between groups causes even … stronger in-group cooperation, but also a qualitative change in punishment: punishment becomes anti-social, harming cooperative …

We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and …. The application of sanctions activates a virtuous emotional circle that accompanies cooperation. Emotionally aroused … punished, and increase their subsequent level of cooperation. The outcome is an increased level of contribution that becomes …