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In some important multi-player situations, such as efforts to supply a global public good, players can choose the game they want to play. In this paper we conduct an experimental test of the decision to choose between a “tipping” game, in which every player wants to contribute to the public...
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Property rights theory suggests that vertical integration is a sensible solution to hold-up problems and therefore … rights theory correctly predicts that vertical integration increases aggregate welfare even in the case of unfair outcomes. …
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an experiment to test the hypothesis that this asymmetric flow of information leads agents to search too little. I find …
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, we show that bidders who have regret concerns when they lose an auction may alter their bids. Whether or not information … about the winning bid is disclosed, all losing bidders regret not bidding 0. However, when feedback on the winning bid is … provided, those bidders who lost at an affordable price may regret not bidding more. We show that the former effect causes …
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toward equal sharing. Here we tested the hypothesis that it is regret-both material and strategic-which determines how … players modify their behavior. We conducted a repeated ultimatum game experiment with random strangers, in which one treatment … show that regret is a good predictor of the dynamics of play. Specifically, we will turn to the dynamics that unfold when …
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toward equal, sharing. Here, we tested the hypothesis that it is regret—both material and strategic—which determines, how … players adapt their behavior. We conducted a repeated ultimatum game experiment with, randomly changing strangers. One … the median outcomes in the population. We find that regret is a good predictor of the dynamics of play, in particular of …
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Two pairs of two participants each interact repeatedly in two structurally independent but informationally linked Prisoner's Dilemma games. Neither pair receives feedback about past choices by their own partner but is fully informed about the choices by the other pair. Considering this as a...
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effectively is a major challenge facing organizations. In an experiment conducted at a large public university in the United …
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different shadows of the future and degrees of asymmetry and tested in a lab-experiment. Our experimental data show that game … theory fairly well predicts the basic main effects of our experimental manipulations, but "behavioral" predictions perform …
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