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Perfect-Substitutes, Best-Shot, and Weakest-Link Contests between Groups
Sheremeta, Roman - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2010
This experiment investigates contests between groups. Each group has one strong player, with a higher valuation for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817442
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Overbidding and Heterogeneous Behavior in Contest Experiments
Sheremeta, Roman M. - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2013
We provide an overview of experimental literature on contests and point out the two main phenomena observed in most contest experiments- (i) overbidding relative to the standard Nash equilibrium prediction and (ii) heterogeneous behavior of ex-ante symmetric contestants. Based on the sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817423
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Digit ratio and risk taking: Evidence from a large, multi-ethnic sample
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Galizzi, Matteo M.; Nieboerc, … - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2014
Using a large (n=543) multi-ethnic sample of laboratory subjects, we systematically investigate the link between the digit ratio (the ratio of the length of the index finger to the length of the ring finger, also called 2D:4D ratio) and two measures of individual risk taking: (i) risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011100199
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Can Groups Solve the Problem of Over-Bidding in Contests
Sheremeta, Roman M.; Zhang, Jingjing - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2009
This study reports an experiment that examines whether groups can better comply with theoretical predictions than … individuals in contests. Our experiment replicates previous findings that individual players significantly overbid relative to … individual players. The new findings of our experiment are that groups make 25% lower bids, their bids have lower variance, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008556045
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Sharing as Risk Pooling in a Social Dilemma Experiment
Cherry, Todd L.; Howe, E. Lance; Murphy, James J. - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2015
affected member. In this paper, we describe results of a laboratory experiment designed to test whether a simple sharing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011157036
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Recognizing Contributors: An Experiment on Public Goods
Savikhin Samek, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman M. - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2013
We experimentally investigate the impact of recognizing contributors on public good contributions. We vary recognizing all, highest or lowest contributors. Consistent with previous studies, recognizing all contributors significantly increases contributions relative to the baseline. Recognizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817411
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When Identifying Contributors is Costly: An Experiment on Public Goods
Savikhin Samek, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman M. - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2014
question, we design a public goods experiment in which participants can pay a fee to view information about identities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817434
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Divided Loyalties or Conditional Cooperation? An experimental study of contributions to multiple public goods
McCarter, Matthew W.; Samak, Anya C.; Sheremeta, Roman M. - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2013
, rather than same, group members increases overall contributions. Over the course of the experiment, participants playing two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817440
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Religious Identity and the Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from the Indian Princely States.
Chaudhary, Latika; Rubin, Jared - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2013
Religious identity affects preferences and can consequently affect policy. We propose two mechanisms through which a ruler's religious identity can affect public good provision: i) greater provision of goods in regions where more subjects are the ruler's co-religionists, and ii) lower provision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699800
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The Impact of Social Information on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: A Replication Study
Murphy, James J.; Batmunkh, Nomin; Nilsson, Ben; Ray, … - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2015
Shang and Croson (2009) found that providing information about the donation decisions of others can have a positive impact on individual donations to public radio. In this study, we attempted to replicate their results, however, we found no evidence of that social comparisons affected donation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262875