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Conceptualizing ‘Cooperation’ and ‘Defection’ in the Volunteer’s Dilemma (and in Social Dilemmas More Generally)*
We show how ‘cooperation’ and ‘defection’ in the Volunteer’s Dilemma can be conceptualized in line with established terminology for game-theoretic...
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Stable Social Knowledge Creation to Solve the Contract Failure Dilemma in International Construction Engineering: A Liquid Crystal Metaphor
The importance of social knowledge in the theory and practice of international construction engineering is growing, yet related contract failures are...
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Voluntary versus mandatory information disclosure in the sequential prisoner’s dilemma
In sequential social dilemmas with stranger matching, initiating cooperation is inherently risky for the first mover. The disclosure of the second...
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Inside Buchanan's Samaritan's Dilemma: altruism, strategic courage and ethics of responsibility
The Samaritan’s Dilemma has largely been investigated, frequently by assuming that Samaritans help recipients out of altruism. Yet, Buchanan did not...
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Is a PD game still a dilemma for Japanese rural villagers? A field and laboratory comparison of the impact of social group membership on cooperation
Local norms and shared beliefs in cohesive social groups regulate individual behavior in everyday economic life. I use a door-to-door field...
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Sado-masochism in Buchanan’s Samaritan’s Dilemma: A Constitutional Perspective
In this paper, we study the impact of altruism on an interaction between a Samaritan and a recipient/parasite in the frame of Buchanan’s Samaritan’s...
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Knowing me, knowing you: an experiment on mutual payoff information in the stag hunt and Prisoner’s Dilemma
We experimentally study how mutual payoff information affects strategic play. Subjects play the Prisoner’s Dilemma or Stag Hunt game against randomly...
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Staring at the Abyss: a neurocognitive grounded agent-based model of collective-risk social dilemma under the threat of environmental disaster
Increasingly visible climate change consequences challenge carbon-based economies worldwide. While expert knowledge on climate change percolates...
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Can Environmental, Social and Governance Performance Alleviate Financial Dilemma?
In the context of the increasing emphasis on sustainable development, enterprises, as integral components of society, play a crucial role in...
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Definitional Dilemma
The chapter looks into the different kinds of definitions of informal which have been adopted in labour economics. Guided by International Labour...
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King Solomon’s dilemma: an experiment on implementation in iterative elimination of (obviously) dominated strategies
“King Solomon’s dilemma” is based on a biblical story that can be considered an allocation problem for an indivisible good among two players. We...
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Interpreting the Iterated Dilemma Games by Using the Presentation Like “Cellular Automatons”
Myopic optimization around scarce resources makes the least use of available information. Such optimization was a winning strategy in the stage when...
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Social Policy—From a Prisoner’s Dilemma to a European Cartel
European social policy, as we know it today, was born during globalisation after the 1870s. Interestingly, international treaties did not play a...
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The Portuguese Dilemma of Unstable Pensions
Portugal’s high public debt, its weak economic growth and its great attractiveness for foreign tourists are legend. Less well known is its unstable...
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Care and anger motives in social dilemmas
This paper provides evidence for the following novel insights: (1) People’s economic decisions depend on their psychological motives, which are...
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Mathematical Framework to Quantify Social Dilemmas
The context of social dilemma is of great interest in evolutionary game theory because of its importance in explaining the evolution of cooperation...
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Is there a nexus between pro-social behavior and well-being? Correlational evidence
Is there a connection between pro-social behavior and well-being? This question has long been of interest, with Aristotle famously suggesting a nexus...
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An American Dilemma
This chapter provides an account of Gunnar Myrdal’s most famous work, An American Dilemma, published in 1944. This book analyzed the race problem in...
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Depicting ethical dilemma in Islamic financial institutions; addressing the gender heterogeneity
Though the lex loci applicable to Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) are derived from Shariah that embeds ethical and moral values, IFIs still...
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The Preference Survey Module: evidence on social preferences from Tehran
We provide evidence on the extent to which survey items in the Preference Survey Module and the resulting Global Preference Survey measuring social...