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

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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.

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  • Antoni Bosch-Domènech & Joaquin Silvestre, 2017. "Experiment-inspired comments on John Roemer's theory of cooperation," Economics Working Papers 1593, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
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    Keywords

    Cooperation; framing; prisoner's dilemma; moral dilemma;
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    • C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
    • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods

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