Polluted rivers are harmful to human, animals and plants living along it. To reduce the harm, cleaning costs are generated. However, when the river passes through several different countries or regions, a relevant question is how should the costs be shared among the agents. Ni and Wang (2007)...

This paper experimentally studies the role of a compromise option in a repeated battle-of-the-sexes game. We find that in a random-matching environment, compromise serves as an effective focal point and facilitates coordination, but fails to improve efficiency. However, in a fixed-partnership...

This paper experimentally investigates the importance of sacrifice in affecting people’s reciprocal behavior. Our design allows us to exactly pin down how sacrifice of the sender’s own payoff matters for her perceived kindness from the eyes of the receiver in a sender-receiver game, without...

This study investigates how people provide public goods in a network formation game. In this game, players first form a network through bilateral linking, with or without a link cost, and then contribute to a public good, which can benefit both themselves and their direct neighbors....