This paper presents an experimental test of the theory of individual sense of fairness of Karni and Safra (2000). According to this theory individuals' choice among random procedures designed to allocate indivisible goods is motivated, in part, by concern for fairness. The experimental study is...

This is a paper on the creation and evolution of conventions of behavior in ”inter-generational games”. In these games a sequence of non-overlapping ”generations” of players play a stage game for a finite number of periods and are then replaced by other agents who continue the game in...

In the real world, when people play games, they often receive advice from those that have played it before them. Such advice can facilitate the creation of a convention of behavior. This paper studies the impact of advice on the behavior subjects who engage in a non-overlapping generational...