one of the two states. We elicit subjects’ beliefs, risk and other-regarding preferences. Our design also allows us to … subject’s own behavior in the other role. The results of the experiment indicate that, when acting as senders, the majority of … receivers cannot be explained by risk preferences or as a best response to subject’s own behavior in the sender’s role. However …

This study reports an experiment that examines whether groups can better comply with theoretical predictions than … individuals in contests. Our experiment replicates previous findings that individual players significantly overbid relative to … individual players. The new findings of our experiment are that groups make 25% lower bids, their bids have lower variance, and …

first stage but not in the second stage. Our experiment provides evidence that winning is a component in a subject’s utility …

potentially divisible resource. We design an experiment to compare individuals’ decisions across three resource allocation … contests which are isomorphic under risk-neutrality. The results indicate that in aggregate the single-prize contest generates …-prize contest. We also elicit preferences toward risk, ambiguity and losses, and find that while such preferences cannot explain …

This laboratory experiment studies two-stage contests between political parties. In the first stage, parties run their …