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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 …

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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...

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Conditional Cooperation and the Effect of Punishment

Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2018

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish others. In particular, we disentangle the decision to be a...

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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...

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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....

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments

Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - 2021

individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them - as well as subjects' elicited beliefs - to explain …

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The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks

Dan Kovenock J.; Roberson, Brian; Sheremeta, Roman M. - CESifo - 2010

This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of targets, in which the attacker’s objective is to successfully attack at least one target and the defender’s objective is diametrically opposed. We apply two benchmark contest...

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