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whether to engage in costly punishment of a free rider in a survey-based experiment with 1423 students from seven study areas …
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Two experimental treatments are used to study the effects of auction risk across five mechanisms. The first canonical … neutral Nash equilibrium is prevalent in all common auction mechanisms except for the English auction. We do not find evidence …
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overbid more than higher value bidders, and they overbid more frequently in the second price auction than in the ascending … price auction. Overall, the lower value bidder submits bids that exceed value about half the time. These patterns are not …
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In this paper, we claim that agents confronting with new interactive situations apply behavioral heuristics that drastically reduce the problem complexity either by neglecting the other players’ incentives, or by restricting attention to subsets of “salient” outcomes. We postulate that...
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The black box method was developed as an "asocial control" to allow for payoff-based learning while eliminating social responses in repeated public goods games. Players are told they must decide how many virtual coins they want to input into a virtual black box that will provide uncertain...
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This paper presents the results of an experimental study of takeover auctions with toeholds. Consistent with the theory, we find a positive effect of toeholds on bidding. Such an effect, however, is of a lower magnitude and the bidding premium function has an opposite slope than the theory...
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We conduct a laboratory experiment where groups of 4 subjects constrained to obtain at most one good each, sequentially … bid for three goods in first and second price auctions. Subjects learn at the beginning of each auction their valuation … for the good and exit the auction once they have obtained one good. We show that, contrary to equilibrium predictions …
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With a laboratory experiment, we study the impact of buy-options and the corresponding buy-price on revenues and …-prices, bidders are reluctant to bid above the option price (even though the option is no longer available once an auction has started …
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We present a model where each of two players chooses between remuneration based on either private or team effort. Although at least one of the players has the equilibrium strategy to choose private remuneration, we frequently observe both players to choose team remuneration in a series of...
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This paper reports an experiment evaluating the effect of gift giving on building trust. We have nested our …
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