Department of Economics and Business - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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-Dom�nech 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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