This paper reports the results of a meta-study of 89 prisoner's dilemma experiments comprising more than 3000 participants across 6 countries. We organize existing evidence and explain seemingly contradictory results in the existing literature by focusing on two dimensions of the dilemma:...

We experimentally explore the role of collective incentives in sustaining cooperation in finitely repeated public goods games with imperfect monitoring. In our experiment players only observe noisy signals about individual contributions, while total output is perfectly observed. We consider...

Experimental studies of infinitely repeated games typically consist of several indefinitely repeated games ("matches'') played in sequence with different partners each time, whereby match length, i.e. the number of stages of each game is randomly determined. Using a large meta data set on...

Public goods provision often involves groups of contributors repeatedly interacting with administrators who can extract rents from the pool of contributions. We suggest a novel identification approach that exploits the sequential ordering of decisions in a panel vector autoregressive model to...