In November 2001, 5,558 readers of the German weekly Die Zeit participated in a three-person ultimatum experiment involving a proposer X, a responder Y, and a dummy Z (Guth and van Damme, 1998). A proposal is a vector (x,y,z) with x + y + z = DM 1,200, and x in {0, 200, 400, 600, 800, 1000}, and...

5,132 readers of the German weekly, Die Zeit, participated in a three-person bargaining experiment. In our data analysis we focus on (1) the influence of age, gender, profession and medium chosen for participation and (2) the external validity of student behaviour (inside and outside the lab)....

On 11 May 2001, readers of the Berliner Zeitung were invited to participate in an ultimatum bargaining experiment played in the strategy vector mode: each participant chooses not only how much (s)he demands of the DM1,000 pie but also which of the nine possible offers of DM100, 200, ..., 900...

On 11 May 2001, readers of the Berliner Zeitung were invited to participate in an ultimatum bargaining experiment played in the strategy vector mode: each participant chooses not only how much (s)he demands of the DM1,000 pie but also which of the nine possible offers of DM100, 200,..., 900...