controlled classroom experiment show that women are more responsive to such contextual effects and that social agreements can …

. Furthermore, we discuss how such a preference can be integrated in the modelling of utility in order to account for the …

social norms. This paper describes the methods and tools of experimental game theory and provides a selection of games that … have been useful. We also discuss the role of evolutionary explanations of and social preference theory in organizing the …

This paper revisited Gregory Bateson’s theory of hierarchical learning through an experiment testing the existence of … first part of the experiment is seen as a kind of training period. The different treatments of the coordination game are, in … a same situation. Our experiment suggests that the preliminary training influences how the second game is perceived …

: the choice of bid levels. Full efficiency is generally unachievable with a discrete auction. Since there may be more than … efficiency, the social planner tries to choose the partition rule-a rule dictating how type space is partitioned to group bidders … who submit the same bid together-to maximize efficiency. With the efficient partition rule, we implement bid levels with …

too. In a gift-exchange experiment with independent payoffs between two agents we find causal evidence for peer effects …

run an experiment in which: `private citizens` have to decide whether and how much to offer `public servants` in exchange …