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We study pure redistribution as a device to increase cooperation and efficiency in the provision of public goods. Experimental subjects play a two-stage game. The first stage is the standard linear public goods game. In the second stage, subjects can redistribute payoffs among other subjects in...
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In this paper, we study the effectiveness of intergroup competition in promoting cooperative behavior. We focus on intergroup competition that is non-rival in the sense that everyone can be a winner. This type of competition does not give groups an incentive to outcompete others. However, in...
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In our laboratory customer markets, sellers post price and buyers incur cost (controlled at zero, low and high values) when they switch to a new seller. Sellers' production costs follow various random walks in 28 sessions, each with 50-100 trading periods. We find that prices are sticky, and...
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This in-class duopoly game experiment allows students to learn about strategies and equilibria. It is appropriate for …
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"Winner-Take-All"-markets, i.e. markets in which the relative and not the absolute performance is decisive, have gained in importance. Such markets have a tendency to provoke inefficiently many entries. We investigate the functioning of such markets with the help of experiments and show that...
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Bidding challenges learning theories since experiences for the same bid vary stochastically: the same choice can result in a gain or a loss. In such an environment the question arises how the nearly universally documented phenomenon of loss aversion affects the adaptive dynamics. We analyze the...
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tend to support increased public spending on social programs. In this study, we put conventional wisdom to the test by … goods game and the bilateral trust game. First, we test whether Democrats or liberals are more likely to contribute to a … group account when such actions are contrary to self-interest. Next, we test whether Democrats and liberals choose to trust …
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We study decisions of subjects who are given an incentive to solve dynamic optimization problems with the structure of a single-agent, one-sector, closed economy macroeconomic model. The decision task involves a sequence of choices of consumption and investment levels. Treatment variables...
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Instructors can use a computerized experiment to introduce students to imperfect competition in courses on introductory … thinking in general, the experiment serves to demonstrate that profits of a firm fall as the number of competitors is increased … in a market and that firms enter profitable markets. The authors have used the experiment in undergraduate classes on …
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