We use a new web-based experimental methodology to measure social networks through a coordination game. Subjects name 10 people in their community as well as report certain dimensions of their relationship with them such as where they met, under what circumstance they met and how much time they...

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Scores of experimental studies in two player bargaining games have shown the importance of fair outcomes in complete information environments. However, the case of complete information may be a special case, both in terms of the amount of information the players have, and the fact that they can...

We study games played between groups of players, where a given group decides which strategy it will play through a vote by its members. When groups consist of two voting players, our games can also be interpreted as network-formation games. In experiments on Stag Hunt games, we find that that...

Abstract: We consider bargaining in a bipartite network of buyers and sellers, who can only trade with the limited number of people with whom they are connected. Such networks could arise due to proximity issues or restricted communication flows, as with information transmission of job openings,...

Social scientists have presented evidence that suggests discrimination is ubiquitous—across several heterogeneous labor markets, as well as product markets as diverse as home insurance and new car sales, women, nonwhites, and the elderly have been found to be the target of discriminatory...

Field and experimental research demonstrate the positive relationship between efficiency and both trust and trustworthiness. Berg, Dickhaut and McCabe (BDM), 1995, first showed the existence and strength of both trust and trustworthiness in a laboratory economic experiment. Building off BDM,...