cooperation is best reply to itself. We give the condition for the existence of the Ostrom threshold in the Nederlander …-Prisoner's Dilemma Game. For high enough cost of failure, cooperation among rational egoists is sustained. The Ostrom threshold first …

whether the prospect of losses can induce cooperation, we let experimental subjects play the traveler's dilemma in the gain …

Repeated interactions provide a prominent but paradoxical hypothesis for human cooperation in one-shot interactions … mechanism reliably supports the evolution of cooperation when actions vary continuously. Ambiguous reciprocity, a strategy … generally ruled out in models of reciprocal altruism, completely undermines cooperation under repeated interactions, which …

Gallice and Monzón (2019) present a natural environment that sustains full cooperation in one-shot social dilemmas … against alternative behavioural strategies, such as conditional cooperation, altruistic play and free-riding behaviour. We …

We characterize 'Games of Altruistic Cooperation' as a class of games in which cooperation leaves the individual and … and/or communication support altruistic cooperation to sustain the welfare of future generations. Without punishment or … communication, cooperation is low; communication alone even increases the incidence of zero contributions. However, combining peer …