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Downsizing the labor force by low and high profit firms : an experimental analysis

Güth, Werner; Paul, Christian - 2008

scenario with a labor market background. We pursue the latter approach and test experimentally wether downsizing occurs …

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Participation and decision making : a three-person power-to-take experiment

Albert, Max; Mertins, Vanessa - 2008

It is often conjectured that participatory decision making may increase acceptance even of unfavorable decisions. The present paper tests this conjecture in a three-person power-to-take game. Two takers decide which fraction of the responder's endowment to transfer to themselves; the responder...

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An experimental investigation of colonel blotto games

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Daniel J.; … - 2009

This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a...

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Rage against the machines

Dürsch, Peter; Kolb, Albert; Oechssler, Joerg; … - 2005

We use an experiment to explore how subjects learn to play against computers which are programmed to follow one of a … play, imitation, reinforcement learning, and a trial & error process. We test whether subjects try to influence those … and that all learning algorithms are subject to exploitation with the notable exception of imitation. The experiment was …

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More than words : communication in intergroup conflicts

Leibbrandt, Andreas; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2010

destructive nature of intergroup conflicts. -- Communication ; Conflict ; Experiment ; Rent-seeking …

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The minority of three-game: an experimental and theoretical analysis

Chmura, Thorsten; Güth, Werner; Pitz, Thomas; … - 2010

We report experimental and theoretical results on the minority of three-game where three players have to choose one of two alternatives independently and the most rewarding alternative is the one chosen by a single player. This coordination game has many asymmetric equilibria in pure strategies...

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(Anti-) coordination in networks

Kovářík, Jaromír; Mengel, Friederike; Romero, J. Gabriel - 2010

We study (anti-) coordination problems in networks in a laboratory experiment. Partici- pants interact with their …

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Approximate truth of perfectness : an experimental test

Berninghaus, Siegfried; Güth, Werner; King, Li King - 2012

"Approximate truth" refers to the principle that border cases should be analyzed by solving generic cases and solving border cases as limits of generic ones (Brennan et al., 2008). Our study experimentally explores whether this conceptual principle is also behaviorally appealing. To do so, we...

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Would you mind if I get more? : an experimental study of the envy game

Casal, Sandro; Güth, Werner; Jia, Mofei; Ploner, Matteo - 2011

Envy is often the cause of mutually harmful outcomes. We experimentally study the impact of envy in a bargaining setting in which there is no conflict in material interests: a proposer, holding the role of residual claimant, chooses the size of the pie to be shared with a responder, whose share...

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On delays in project completion with cost reduction : an experiment

Sarkar, Shubhro; Kwasnica, Anthony M. - In: Southern economic journal 77 (2011) 3, pp. 557-584

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