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In this paper, we describe a series of laboratory experiments that implement specific examples of a more general network structure and we examine equilibrium selection. Specifically, actions are either strategic substitutes or strategic complements, and participants have either complete or...
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"We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden …
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We develop a model of strategic contractual incompleteness that identifies conditions under which principals might omit even costlessly verifiable terms. We then use experiments to test comparative statics predictions of the model. While it is well known that verifiability imperfections can...
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In this paper we conduct a laboratory experiment to test the extent to which Moore and Repullo's subgame perfect …
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We perform an incentivized experiment designed to assess the accuracy of beliefs about characteristics and decisions … information is readily available as in height and weight. We present evidence from our experiment that limited attention and self …
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experiment in which employers cannot observe a worker's ability nor verify the veracity of the ability the worker claims to have …
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This paper shows that the opportunity costs resulting from economic interdependence decrease the equilibrium probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the inverse trade-conflict relationship, but is the opposite...
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The paper explains how workers' expectations of being discriminated against can be self-confirming, accounting for the persistence of unequal outcomes in the labour market even beyond the causes that originally generated them. The theoretical framework used is a two-stage game of incomplete...
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"Why are socially beneficial reforms not implemented? One simple answer to this question (which has received little attention in the literature) is that this may be caused by generalized uncertainty about the effectiveness of reforms. If agents are unsure about whether a proposed reform will...
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