There is wide-ranging evidence, much of it deriving from economics experiments, of ‘anomalies’ in behaviour that … preference elicitation methodology. -- contingent valuation ; experiments ; learning ; preference elicitation ; preference theory …

behavior for subjects, who cannot be classified as conditional cooperators, reasonably well. -- public goods experiments …

repeated public goods experiments. We find that belief accuracy is significantly higher when beliefs are incentivized. The … results for the design of experiments. -- Incentives ; beliefs ; experiments ; public goods …

questions in the case of finitely repeated public goods experiments. We find that belief accuracy is significantly higher when … beliefs at all. We discuss the implications of our results for the design of public good experiments. -- Incentives ; beliefs …

voluntary cooperation. Further experiments show that this result is robust to two important variables: experiencing Trust … positive effect on effort only under non-incentive compatible contracts. -- principal-agent games ; gift-exchange experiments … ; incomplete contracts, explicit incentives ; implicit incentives ; repeated games ; separability ; experiments …

learning. -- voluntary contribution mechanism ; public goods experiments ; learning ; limited information ; confusion …

the more specific hypothesis that approval-seeking subjects are the ones most likely to select into experiments. Finally …