Corporate income taxation and prudential regulation are complementary instruments for public policy in banking markets. The common deductibility of interest payments induces debt bias and causes banks to be excessively levered. A reduction in debt-bias can achieve two goals at the same time: It...

In the Yes/No game, like in the ultimatum game, proposer and respondercan share a monetary reward. In both games the proposer suggests a rewarddistribution which the responder can accept or reject (yielding 0-payoffs). Thegames only differ in that the responder does (not) learn the suggested...

This paper analyses individual information acquisition in an ultimatum game with aprioriunknown outside options. We find that while individual play seems to accord reasonablywell with the distribution of empirical behavior, contestants seem to grossly overweighthe value of information. While...