Abundant evidence suggests that high levels of contributions to public goods can be sustained through self-governed monitoring and sanctioning. This experimental study investigates the effectiveness of decentralized sanctioning institutions in alternative punishment networks. Our results show...

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...

Motivated by problems of coordination failure observed in weak-link games, we experimentally investigate behavioral spillovers for minimum- and median-effort coordination games. Subjects play these coordination games simultaneously and sequentially. The results show that successful coordination...

Costless pre-play communication has been found to effectively facilitate coordination and enhance efficiency by increasing individual payoffs in games with Pareto-ranked equilibria. We report an experiment in which two groups compete in a weakest-link contest by expending costly efforts....