We study how the willingness to enter long-term bilateral relationships affects cooperation even when parties have … little information about each other, ex ante, and cooperation is otherwise unenforceable. We experimentally investigate a … research, longer interactions facilitate cooperation. However, many individuals avoid long-term commitment, with uncooperative …

cooperation), especially for Partners. These results suggest Take framing and Individual-level feedback increase the variability … of cooperation. …

stage, nature draws the costs and benefits of cooperation according to a commonly-known distribution. In the second stage …

beliefs with experience are central to understanding behavior and learning in the IRPD. Beliefs strongly predict cooperation …

can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by … remains unclear. In each of six treatments that vary the cooperation premium and the informational basis for reputation …, that with a high cooperation premium and good information, investment in reputation grows across sets of finitely …

. While cooperation is, in theory, sustainable with or without this option, we show experimentally that cooperation rates are …We study the role that the option to terminate a relationship has on cooperation in a repeated prisoner's dilemma …, through which signals of past cooperative behavior are given to future matches, can substantially increase cooperation rates …