In this paper we investigate the market viability of new assurance services being marketed by accountants. Unlike traditional assurance services, such as financial statement audits, these services may be marketed directly to individual consumers, may vary in quality and may take some...

"In this paper we employ experimental economic methods to examine the effect of market structure on the use of marketable emissions permits. In particular, we ask whether firms can strategically manipulate a product market using marketable emissions permits. Subjects participate in two markets,...

This paper surveys a selection of recent research results which use laboratory methods to contribute to our understanding of risk and uncertainty in environments which are of particular interest to managerial decision-making. The first set of experimental results addresses issues related to...