Paper #1593

Title:

Experiment-inspired comments on John Roemer's theory of cooperation

Authors:

Antoni Bosch-Domènech and Joaquin Silvestre

Date:

December 2017

Abstract:

Motivated by Roemer’s Kantian equilibrium (John Roemer, 2010, 2015, In Press) we performed some experiments on cooperation in extremely simple treatments (Bosch-Domènech and Silvestre, 2017, and Appendix below). Here we comment on some lessons that we have learned from them, and offer some thoughts on Roemer’s theory of cooperation based on social situations that can be easily compared to those in our experiments.

Keywords:

Cooperation, framing, prisoner's dilemma, moral dilemma

JEL codes:

C74, C91, D74, H41

Area of Research:

Behavioral and Experimental Economics / Microeconomics

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