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Designing Contests between Heterogeneous Contestants : An Experimental Study of Tie-Breaks and Bid-Caps in All-Pay Auctions
Llorente-Saguer, Aniol - 2016
in an experiment. Our data show that indeed, strengthening weaker contestants through tie-breaks and bid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986649
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Emotion at Stake : The Role of Stake Size and Emotions in a Power-To-Take Game Experiment in China with a Comparison to Europe
Bosman, Ronald - 2016
This paper experimentally investigates how monetary incentives and emotions influence behaviour in a two-player power-to-take game. In this game, one player can claim any part of the other's endowment (take rate), and the second player can respond by destroying his or her own endowment. We focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992607
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An Experimental Investigation of Colonel Blotto Games
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2021
This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316350
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Tailored Bayesian Mechanisms : Experimental Evidence from Two-Stage Voting Games
Engelmann, Dirk - 2017
Optimal voting rules have to be tailored to the underlying distribution of preferences. This paper shows that the introduction of a stage at which agents may themselves choose voting rules according to which they decide in a second stage may increase the sum of individuals' payoffs if players...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958449
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An Externality-Robust Auction : Theory and Experimental Evidence
Bartling, Björn - 2014
An auction is externality-robust if unilateral deviations from equilibrium leave the other bidders' payoffs unaffected. The equilibrium and its outcome will then persist if certain types of externalities arise between bidders. One example are externalities due to spiteful preferences, which have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054012
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When Ignorance is Bliss - Information Asymmetries Enhance Prosocial Behavior in Dictator Games
Winschel, Evguenia; Zahn, Philipp - 2021
knowledge. To assess the effect of information asymmetries on prosocial behavior, we conduct a laboratory experiment with a … a consequence and the main finding of our experiment, uninformed dictators behave more prosocially than informed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315610
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Gender Differences in Experimental Wage Negotiations
Dittrich, Marcus - 2012
We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104251
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Imitation and the Evolution of Walrasian Behavior : Theoretically Fragile but Behaviorally Robust
Apesteguia, Jose - 2008
A well-known result by Vega-Redondo (1997) implies that in symmetric Cournot oligopoly, imitation leads to the Walrasian outcome where price equals marginal cost. In this paper, we show that this result is not robust to the slightest asymmetry in fixed costs. Instead of obtaining the Walrasian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772613
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Bracelets of Pride and Guilt? An Experimental Test of Self-Signaling in Charitable Giving
van der Weele, Joel J. - 2014
experiment subjects divide 20 euros between themselves and a charity. Some randomly determined participants are induced to wear a … bracelet for the two weeks following their donation decision. This bracelet serves as a private reminder of the experiment … remember the experiment in the following two weeks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056823
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Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion
Cubitt, Robin P. - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018458