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specialized enforcement technology is sufficiently effective, cooperation is best sustained by a "single enforcer punishment …We introduce the possibility of direct punishment by specialized enforcers into a model of community enforcement … following deviations by regular agent is that such actions, by reducing future cooperation, would decrease the amount of …
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Until recently, theorists considering the evolution of human cooperation have paid little attention to institutional … maximize compliance? We investigate this question by modeling the co-evolution of law and cooperation in a public goods game … punishment, a defining feature of large-scale human societies. Compared to individually-administered punishment, institutional …
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study the impact of different time horizons on cooperation in (quasi) continuous time prisoner's dilemmas. We find that … cooperation levels are similar or higher when the horizon is deterministic rather than stochastic.Moreover, a deterministic … deterministic horizon subjects show high initial cooperation and a strong end-of-period reversal to defection. Moreover, they do not …
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study the impact of different time horizons on cooperation in (quasi) continuous time prisoner's dilemmas. We find that … cooperation levels are similar or higher when the horizon is deterministic rather than stochastic. Moreover, a deterministic … deterministic horizon subjects show high initial cooperation and a strong end-of-period reversal to defection. Moreover, they do not …
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This work offers an analysis of cooperation dilemmas making emphasis in the role of the unequal outcomes. Increases in … the benefit from leaving mutual cooperation are associated to the greed dimension, while increases in the cost from … cooperation dilemmas derived from the standard Prisoner’s Dilemma. Using two different frameworks, classical game theory and …
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Most of the literature on the evolution of human pro-sociality looks at reasons why evolution made us not play the Nash … prosocial behaviour, we should look at reasons why evolution made us not play the subgame perfect Nash equilibrium in sequential …
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Peer punishment is widely considered a key mechanism supporting cooperation in human groups. Although much research … punish their partner conditional on either the level of cooperation or the level of punishment displayed by others who … previously interacted in the same setting. While many participants punish independently of levels of cooperation or punishment, a …
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show that stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in the repeated public good game. As punishment noise …Identifying mechanisms able to sustain costly cooperation among self-interested agents is a central problem across … social and biological sciences. One possible solution is peer punishment: when agents have an opportunity to sanction …
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If civil war is a contest for popular support, why would a government ever embark on a policy of disproportionate force and mass killing? The logic of civilian defection expects such an approach to easily backfire, as civilians respond to massive losses by opposing the side that inflicted them....
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I study information disclosure as a means to create conflict. A sender has information about two parties' relative strength and seeks to keep them engaged in a war of attrition for as long as possible. In the unique Markov Perfect Equilibrium, the sender employs “shifting rhetoric”: she...
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