In recent years, significant advances have been made in understanding the adaptive (ultimate) and mechanistic (proximate) explanations for the evolution and maintenance of cooperation. Studies of cooperative behaviour in humans invariably use economic games. These games have provided important insights into the mechanisms that maintain economic and social cooperation in our species. However, th...

This paper deals with the following terms: territorial cohesion, territorial cooperation, convergence and local development. Through a comparative analysis of the concepts mentioned above, we have noticed that regional policy aims precisely the realization of economic convergence, territorial cohesion, the development of localities and last but not least the economic development of European ter...

We highlight how human–agent cooperation is linked to the attribution of critical qualities like trustworthiness and competence to the cooperation partner. To investigate these aspects in a systematic fashion, we devise a novel paradigm of an interactive cooperation game that goes beyond commonly adopted economic scenarios. Our results indicate how a less skillful agent that shows little apprec...

Management of international rivers can be a cause of conflict or cooperation between states. Benefits of cooperation include benefits to the ecological river, the economic river, the political river and the catalytic river. The challenges are in balancing the trade-offs between states.

The idea that cooperation can be a source of power has been extensively discussed in various disciplines. We study this idea from an economic viewpoint by analyzing the effect of intragroup cooperation in a static group rent-seeking model. Intragroup cooperation means that agents’ rent-seeking efforts maximize their group’s expected payoff. Although intragroup cooperation always reduces average...