Reciprocity and Coordination

The three essays collected in this PhD thesis focus on reciprocity and coordination. The first essay demonstrates both theoretically and experimentally how to design incentive structures in asymmetric coordination games to enhance coordination success. The second essay examines whether the mode of decision-making influences individuals' propensity to reciprocate trust. The third essay investigates whether people are more likely to reciprocate trust when someone gives up a better alternative (i.e., incurs an opportunity cost) to trust them.