The effect of alternative property rights regimes on the choice between taking an object and acquiring it via a consensual exchange is experimentally explored in a two-period screening game. Results are generally consistent with equilibrium predictions, suggesting that property rights regimes...

This paper investigates the dynamics of deception and retribution in repeated ultimatum bargaining. Anonymous dyads exchanged messages and offers in a series of four ultimatum bargaining games that had prospects for relatively large monetary outcomes. Variations in each party's knowledge of the...

The effect of alternative property rights regimes on the choice between taking an object and acquiring it via consensual exchange is experimentally explored in a two-period screening model. Experimental treatments involving card game implementation yield results that are generally consistent...