In auctions an outside seIler offers a commodity for sale and collects the revenue w hich is achieved. In fair division games the object is owned by the group of bidders. Consequently the auction's revenue is equally distributed among all bidders. In our experiment participants face four auction...

We examine learning behavior in auctions and Fair division games with independent private values under two different price rules, first and second price. Participants face these four games repeatedly and submit complete bid functions rather than single bids. This allows us to examine whether...

We review an asymmetric auction experiment. Based on Plum (1992) private valuations of the two bidders are independently drawn from distinct but commonly known distributions, one of which stochastically dominating the other. We test the qualitative properties of that model of asymmetric...

Similar to Levati and Neugebauer (2001), a clock is used by which participants can vary their individual contributions for voluntarily providing a public good. As time goes by, participants either in(de)crease their contribution gradually or keep it constant. Groups of two poorly and two richly...

In seiner Besprechung der 1. Auflage dieser umfangreichen Einführung in die nicht-kooperative Spieltheorie lobte Martin A. Lobeck das anschauliche Beispielmaterial und schrieb: "Die Autoren, alle Volkswirtschaftler, legen den Schwerpunkt auf die ökonomischen Anwendungen der Spieltheorie und...

Das vorliegende Buch ist ein einführender Text in die nicht-kooperative Spieltheorie, der insbesondere für Studenten geeignet ist, die Freude an präziser Modellierung haben. Neben den Grundlagen der Normalform- und Extensivformspiele werden Themen aus der Verhandlungstheorie, der Theorie der...