Charness et al. (2007b) have shown that group membership has a strong effect on individual decisions in strategic games when group membership is salient through payoff commonality. In this comment I show that their findings also apply to non-strategic decisions, even when no outgroup exists, and...

Informational asymmetries abound in economic decision making and often provide an incentive for deception through telling a lie or misrepresenting information. In this paper I use a cheap-talk sender-receiver experiment to show that telling the truth should be classified as deception too if the...

It is becoming clear that strict interpretation of the Maastricht criteria and adherence to the 1.1.1999 as the starting date for EMU will lead to a two-speed monetary union with insiders and outsiders. In this case, the author proposes the introduction of a currency board for outsiders in order...