Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this … effect of contracts on bargaining threatpoints. We compare situations in which an initial contract is renegotiated to … strategically equivalent bargaining situations in which no ex ante contract was written. The ex ante contract causes sellers to ask …

We analyze results from two categories of experiments where the subjects received controlled signals about the sex of … their co-players. In a series of Battle of the Sexes experiments the subjects played more hawkish against women than against … men. The impact of the sex signal was most pronounced among female subjects. In the second category of experiments we …

"problematic" cities with respect to the integration process of refugees. The subjects confronted three different bargaining games … discrimination effect was detected. However, one specific effect was that Non-Swedes were less likely to be chosen as bargaining …

part, by concern for fairness. The experimental study is intended to test this hypothesis. In the experiments, the subjects …This paper presents an experimental test of the theory of individual sense of fairness of Karni and Safra (2000 …

People's desire for fair transactions can play an important role in negotiations, organizations, and markets. In this … paper, we show that markets can also shape what people consider to be a fair transaction. We propose a simple and generally …-applicable model of path-dependent fairness preferences, in which past experiences shape preferences, and we experimentally test the …