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 …

interaction between the observability of the cooperation of others and the absence of punishment targeted at cooperative …

cooperation through two mechanisms: an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an exit …

We examine the effect of payoff variations on cooperation in one-shot prisoner's dilemma games. We focus on three … impact on cooperation. Temptation directly deters cooperation and indirectly harms cooperation by lowering beliefs about the … opponent's cooperativeness. Efficiency indirectly affects cooperation through beliefs, but the magnitude of the effect is …

We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation … may foster cooperation through a mechanism of assortative selection of interaction partners based on false consensus bias …

We study the effect of group size on cooperation in voluntary contribution mechanism games. As in previous experiments … find that cooperation is highest of all in twoperson groups. The findings in the high MPCR condition are consistent with … those from n-person prisoner's dilemma and oligopoly experiments that suggest it is more difficult to sustain cooperation in …

-temporal ingredient, we generate an outcome-based model which focuses on the conflict between cooperation towards social efficiency and …

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …

Is punishment of free riders driven by descriptive social norms of cooperation and punishment? We conduct experiments … level of cooperation or the level of punishment in the reference group, respectively reflecting descriptive norms of … cooperation and punishment. We observe considerable heterogeneity in punishment behavior. Among punishers, the most common …