This paper experimentally investigates how emotions are associated with option prices and risk perception. Using a binary lottery, we find evidence that the emotion ‘surprise’ plays a significant role in the negative correlation between lottery returns and estimates of the price of a put...

The paper reports experimental data on the behavior in the first-price sealed-bid auction for a varying number of market participants when values and bids are private information. In line with the theory, the data show that the price and the bid-value ratio increase with the number of...

The paper reports an experimental study on a promotion-demotion mechanism to mitigate the free-rider problem in team production. The "mechanism hierarchically splits a group in two; we refer to one subgroup as" the major league and to the other as the minor league. The most cooperative subject...