We study the behavior of individuals coming from different geographic regions of Italy, in a same public good game. We …

goods provision - the quick emergence of a widely accepted social cooperation norm that demands high contributions but - in … consensus as well as the high cooperation demands required by the norm break down. However, when peer punishment is possible … cooperation and welfare - the opportunity to form a social norm unambiguously causes high public good contributions and group …

cooperation behavior and we provide evidence on the microfoundation of this relation. We run a large-scale public goods experiment … over the internet in Denmark using a design that enables us to disentangle preferences for cooperation from beliefs about … others cooperation. We find that the standard trust question is a proxy for cooperation preferences rather than beliefs about …

cooperation behavior and we provide a microfoundation for this relation. We run a large-scale public goods experiment over the … internet in Denmark and find that the trust question is a proxy for cooperation preferences rather than beliefs about others …’ cooperation. To disentangle the preference and belief channels, we run a (standard) public goods game in which beliefs matter for …

A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …

A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …

We explore in an experiment what leads to the breakdown of partnerships. Subjects are assigned a partner and …

Communication is well known to increase cooperation rates in social dilemma situations, but the exact mechanisms behind … artefactual field experiment conducted with 216 villagers from small, rural communities in northern Namibia. In line with previous … experimental findings, we observe a strong increase in cooperation when face-to-face communication is allowed before decision …