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Communication With Partially Verifiable Information : An Experiment
Burdea, Valeria - 2020
We use laboratory experiments to study communication games with partially verifiable information. In these games, based on Glazer and Rubinstein (2004, 2006), an informed sender sends a two-dimensional message to a receiver, but only one dimension of the message can be verified. We compare a...
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Majoritarian contests with asymmetric battlefields : an experiment
Montero, María; Possajennikov, Alexandre; Sefton, Martin; … - 2013
choices from a laboratory experiment. The equilibrium predicts that the large battlefield receives more than a proportional …
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To tender or not to tender? : deliberate and exogenous sunk costs in a public good game
Heine, Florian; Sefton, Martin - In: Games 9 (2018) 3/41, pp. 1-28
In an experimental study, we compare individual willingness to cooperate in a public good game after an initial team contest phase. While players in the treatment setup make a conscious decision on how much to invest in the contest, this decision is exogenously imposed on players in the control...
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Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2017
We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition … Prowse experiment, where the latter treatment removes the scope for social comparisons. If disappointment aversion simply …
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Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2017
Prowse experiment are compared, where the latter treatment involves a competition against Nature and removes the scope for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660754
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Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2017
We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition … Prowse experiment, where the latter treatment removes the scope for social comparisons. If disappointment aversion simply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658021
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Majoritarian Blotto contests with asymmetric battlefields : an experiment on apex games
Montero, María; Possajennikov, Alexandre; Sefton, Martin; … - In: Economic theory : official journal of the Society for … 61 (2016) 1, pp. 55-89
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Majoritarian Contests with Asymmetric Battlefields : An Experiment
Montero, Maria; Possajennikov, Alex; Sefton, Martin; … - 2013
choices from a laboratory experiment. The equilibrium predicts that the large battlefield receives more than a proportional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150669
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Enlargement and the Balance of Power : An Experimental Study
Montero, Maria; Sefton, Martin; Zhang, Ping - 2006
majority voting rules, and we measure the voting power of a player by his average payoff in the experiment. By comparing voting … voting body may affect the balance of power between the original members even if their number of votes and the decision rule … power across voting bodies of varying size, we find empirical support for the paradox of new members. Our results also allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063843
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The effect of rewards and sanctions in provision of public goods
Sefton, Martin; Shupp, Robert; Walker, James - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 45 (2007) 4, pp. 671-690
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