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study the impact of non-deterrent formal sanctions on voluntary contributions to a public good in a laboratory experiment …
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Despite normative predictions from economics and biology, unrelated strangers will often develop the trust necessary to reap gains from one-shot economic exchange opportunities. This appears to be especially true when declared intentions and emotions can be cheaply communicated. Perhaps even...
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I study the effect of sunk entry-costs on potential competition in a multi-market framework, where potential entrants have different home market profits. Although sunk-entry-costs are supposed to increase entry barriers, my experimental results suggest that firms view entry costs differently...
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A rich body of literature has proposed that pairs behave significantly differently from individuals due to a number of reasons such as group polarization. This paper experimentally compares cooperation behaviors between pairs and individuals in a finitely-repeated two-player public goods game...
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In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we …
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In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we scan …
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A particular problem of traditional Rational Choice Theory is that it cannot explain equilibrium selection in simple … the theory of Team Reasoning (TR). Special consideration is given to TR’s concept of opportunistic choice and to the … resulting restrictions in using private information. We report results from a laboratory experiment in which teams were given a …
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. Specifically, we intend to assess if there exists a risky choice theory that statistically fits group decisions significantly …
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resources) can occur. Although the standard theory cannot explain over-dissipation, this phenomenon can be explained by … coherent picture of important behavioral dimensions that should be considered when studying rent-seeking behavior in theory and …
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simultaneous social dilemmas. The divided-loyalty hypothesis, from organizational theory, predicts that cooperation will decline as … with different compared to the same group members. We employ a laboratory experiment to create consensus between these …
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