The ultimatum game has improved our understanding about the bargaining power associated with a threat, an issue where information and communication are central. This paper presents a selective review of the literature on economic experiments in the ultimatum game, organizing the major...

A relevance, distinctiveness and plausibility (RDP) analysis is a conceptual framework that can be used to identify when potential confounds are a problem for interpreting experimental results. We illustrate this analysis using the creation or enhancement of natural group identity by the means...

El artículo presenta una revisión de los experimentos realizados sobre bienes públicos apoyados en el mecanismo de contribución voluntaria. La evidencia empírica existente muestra que los individuos no son solo los seres egoístas y competitivos que supone la teoría económica ortodoxa,...

A kísérletezés története meglehetősen eltérő a közgazdaságtanban, illetve a menedzsmenttudományokban. Míg a közgazdászok többsége egészen a legutóbbi időkig bizalmatlansággal - ha nem gyanakvással - tekintett a kísérletekre, a menedzsmenttudományok művelői változatos...

What impact do social preferences have in market-type settings where individuals can sort in response to relative prices? We show that sorting behavior can distinguish between individuals who like to share and those who share but prefer to avoid the sharing environment altogether. In four...

The book is the first completer description of the typology for person’s economic behavior (the author – Anatoly A. Shiyan). The problem on description of personal behavior has a crucial role for the development of mechanisms design for personnel management, because by elaborated...

Bu çalışmanın amacı deneysel iktisat metodolojisini irdelemektir. İktisadi araştırmalarda, iktisat bilimi için veri toplamada göreli olarak yeni bir yaklaşım olan deneysel yöntemlere giderek daha sık başvurulmaktadır. Bu nedenle, makalede deneysel iktisat metodolojisinin...

In this paper we reply to Binmore and Shaked’s criticism of the Fehr-Schmidt model of inequity aversion. We put the theory and their arguments into perspective and show that their criticism is not substantiated. Finally, we briefly comment on the main challenges for future research on...

The Duhem-Quine thesis asserts that any empirical evaluation of a theory is in fact a composite test of several interconnected hypotheses. Recalcitrant evidence signals falsity within the conjunction of hypotheses, but logic alone cannot pinpoint the individual element(s) inside the theoretical...

The Duhem-Quine thesis asserts that any empirical evaluation of a theory is in fact a composite test of several interconnected hypotheses. Recalcitrant evidence signals falsity within the conjunction of hypotheses, but logic alone cannot pinpoint the individual element(s) inside the theoretical...