together rather than investing separately. We study the coordination and cooperation problems that might hinder successful … collaboration in a dynamic network setting. We develop an experiment in which coordination problems are mainly due to finding … partners for collaboration, while cooperation problems arise at the investment levels of partners who have already agreed to …

Cooperation is beneficial but may be hard to achieve in situations where the selfish interests of individuals conflict … of simultaneous dynamics of the network structure and cooperative behavior on this structure. The results of this study … show that partner choice strongly facilitates cooperation and leads to networks where free-riders are likely to be excluded. …

We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation … may foster cooperation through an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an …

cooperation in a subsequent social dilemma game. The issues we study are part of the broader topic of whether there are behavioral … cooperation for pairs of market-winners, market-losers and mixed pairs and study both the cases where interaction in the social … experience has adverse effects on the efficiency of cooperation on both market-winner and market-loser pairs. In market …

We study the coevolution of cooperation, preferences and cooperative signals in an environment where individuals engage …

We use experimental methods to investigate whether pledges of commitment can improve cooperation in endogenously … findings show that pledges of commitment alone can increase cooperation and welfare in committed partnerships. The introduction … partnerships fall solely on the individual choosing to break up, pledges of commitment fail to improve cooperation and welfare. …