Purpose – The purpose of this chapter is to serve as an introduction and motivation for Volume 13 of Research in Experimental Economics. In many cases, these introductory chapters are prefaces, limited to giving a roadmap of the volume and brief discussions of the chapters and why they were...

This paper examines a voluntarily provided common-property resource (CPR) in settings that vary the rules used for allocating the resource to providers. Three allocation mechanisms are investigated: “allocator,” “tremble,” and “egalitarian.” The allocator mechanism, based on...

Machine generated contents note: PART I INTRODUCTION: SOCIAL DILEMMAS AND TRUST 1 -- Chapter 1 Introduction 3 -- Elinor Ostrom and James Walker -- Chapter 2 Toward a Behavioral Theory Linking -- Trust, Reciprocity, and Reputation 19 -- Elinor Ostrom -- Chapter 3 Gaming Trust 80 -- Russell Hardin...