-order’ monitoring can actually facilitate the deception of fully rational consumers, to deter them from otherwise optimal search …

We describe a multiproduct barter trading experiment in which students exchange real goods in an open market based on … their own personal preference. The experiment is designed for simulating a pure exchange market in order to demonstrate the …

survives in the environment in which lying succeeds. …

This note describes an experiment, which is an extension of the experiment proposed by Levy and Bergen (1993). The … experiment is designed to simulate an environment where something that is very similar to fiat money (i.e., is homogenous …

rates of lying overall, but with increased rates of lying conditional on not voting. This paper proposes a model of voter … turnout in which people who claim to vote get praise from other citizens. Those who lie must bear a cost of lying. The model … has a stable equilibrium with positive rates of voting, honest non-voting, and lying. Reasonable parameter changes produce …

experiment does not lead to a significant loss of experimental control. Based on this assessment, experimental economists were … counseled to lift their de facto prohibition against deception to capture its potential benefits. To the extent that this … discussion of the methodological costs and benefits of deception, we conclude that experimental economists' prohibition of …