Impersonal cooperation among strangers enables societies to create valuable public goods,
such as infrastructure, public services, and democracy. Several factors have been proposed …

The idea that strong situations restrict variance in behaviors has been treated as a maxim in
psychology. Prior work has, however, offered inconclusive support for this proposition. We …

The role of incentive institutions on promoting cooperation in public goods game (PGG) has
attracted much attention. Theoretical studies based on Nash equilibrium analysis predict that …

Second-order free riders, who do not owe punishment cost to first-order free riders in public
goods games, lead to low cooperation. Previous studies suggest that for stable cooperation …

The present paper investigates how rewards as well as punishments–implemented to
enforce the social norm of cooperation–impact the reputations of the leaders administering …

Reputation and punishment are two distinct mechanisms that facilitate cooperation among
strangers. However, empirical research on their effectiveness is mainly limited to relatively …

Centralized sanctioning in social dilemmas has been shown to increase efficiency with
respect to standard decentralized peer punishment. In this context, we explore the impact of …

Evolution is based on the competition between individuals and therefore rewards only
selfish behavior. How cooperation or altruism behavior could prevail in social dilemma then …

Abstract Setting aside its conceptual issues, it remains an open question whether the
internal point of view is a good descriptive tool for the behaviour of ordinary citizens or if a …

We study centralized and decentralized enforcement in social dilemmas with income
inequality and incomplete information. Subjects are randomly assigned different …