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The paper reports on an experiment on two-player double-auction bargaining with private values. We consider a setting …
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place in the auction rendering the negotiation prior to the auction obsolete. An experimental test of the model provides …
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/2; if neither offer falls into the interval, there is no settlement. Comparisons are made with other bargaining mechanisms …
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We let students play a corruption game, embedded into a variant of the ultimatum game. Those allotted the role of public servants chose between whistleblowing, opportunism and reciprocity by delivery (of a contract) and those acting as businesspeople chose how to frame the game and whether to...
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A well-known result by Vega-Redondo (1997) implies that in symmetric Cournot oligopoly, imitation leads to the Walrasian outcome where price equals marginal cost. In this paper, we show that this result is not robust to the slightest asymmetry in fixed costs. Instead of obtaining the Walrasian...
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In minority games, players in a group must decide at each round which of two available options to choose, knowing that only subjects who picked the minority option obtain a positive reward. Previous experiments on the minority and similar congestion games have shown that players interacting...
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the no-run outcome the unique equilibrium. We test if the theoretical predicitions hold in a lab experiment. We find that …
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We investigate a version of the classic Colonel Blotto game in which individual battles may have different values. Two players allocate a fixed budget across battlefields and each battlefield is won by the player who allocates the most to that battlefield. The winner of the game is the player...
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bias. Furthermore, the paper explores the role of information and bargaining power on behavior and profit prospects in Buy …
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We study experimentally the effect of bargaining power in two sequential mechanisms that offer the possibility to trade … at a fixed price before an auction. In the “Buy-It-Now” format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price … effects of bargaining power on aggregate outcomes. There is, however, substantial heterogeneity within sellers. Sellers who …
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