How to increase and sustain cooperation in public goods games: Conditional commitments via a mediator
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Keywords
Prisoner’s dilemma; Cooperation; Public goods; Assortative matching; Mediator; Commitment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
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