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Frequent criticism in dynamic decision making research pertains to the overly complex nature of the decision tasks used in experimentation. To address such concerns we study dynamic decision making with respect to the simple race game Hog, which has a computable optimal decision strategy. In the...

This thesis consists of studies in the field of experimental economics. The first two chapters of the thesis deal with the issue of subject selection in Cournot Oligopoly experiments. In particular, chapter 1 presents a study which was designed to test whether a predominant personality inventory...

In a four-treatment experiment, we test some of the hypotheses inGarcia-Gallego et al.(2004) concerning competition among a number offirms of which some (or all) are indexed by a price-comparison enginefacilitating buyers' search process. In this paper, we isolateindividual behavior from noise...

This Thesis contains three essays on the economic behavior of individuals. The first essay, co-authored with Andreas Blume and Douglas DeJong is an experimental investigation into the contribution of cognition in a strategic setting where the goal is to coordinate by choosing different courses...

This thesis proposes and evaluates the tax affinity hypothesis claiming that people derive utility from paying tax. Slutsky-like equations are derived for the unique three-good utility maximization problem with leisure as the only choice variable. There is evidence for the tax affinity...

Firms collaborate to develop and deliver new products. These collaborations vary in terms of the similarity of the competencies that partnering firms bring to the alliance. In same-function alliances, partnering firms have similar competencies, whereas in cross-function alliances, partners have...

Technological developments have been reshaping existing markets and giving rise to new ones. In my dissertation, I address several questions that emerged as a result of these changes. In the first two chapters, I study strategies in two different markets: a simultaneous ascending auction (SAA)...

This dissertation addresses three questions that arise out of the voluntary and subjective provision of feedback and its subjective interpretation. The first study is an experimental investigation of a mechanism designed to give buyers incentives for feedback provision. It starts from the...

Research in economics and psychology has established that informal non-monetary sanctions, particularly expressions of negative emotion or disapproval, can enforce fair economic exchange. However, scholars are only beginning to understand the reasons non-monetary sanctions affect economic...