Whether there are gender di erences in lying has been largely debated in the past decade. Previous studies found mixed results. To shed light on this topic, here I report a meta-analysis of 8,728 distinct observations, collected in 65 Sender-Receiver game treatments, by 14 research groups....

Do democratically chosen rules lead to more cooperation and, hence, higher efficiency, than imposed rules? To discuss when such a "dividend of democracy" obtains, we review experimental studies in which material incentives remain stacked against cooperation (i.e., free-riding incentives prevail)...

We experimentally investigate variants of the investment game by Berg, Dickhaut, and McCabe (1995), in which one of the two players decides who are first mover and second mover. It has been shown by Kleine, Königstein, and Rozsnyói (2014) that voluntary leadership increases both investment and...

We report experimental findings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...

Spanish Abstract: La presente investigación analiza la estabilidadpolítica dentro de dos legislaturas mexicanasrecientes desde un enfoque de teoría de juegos.Para lo anterior, se desarrolla teoría propia enel campo de la Nueva Economía Política (nep),para aplicarla posteriormente al...

In this paper we give an overview of algorithms developed to aid catalyst optimization at the Mexican Institute of Petroleum. We present a methodology that uses an evolutionary approach and ideas from tabu search and simulated annealing to guide the search for optimum catalytic materials based...

Among the myriad preference elicitation methods used in experimental economics and finance, adaptive elicitation methods are a recent innovation. Here we present a ready-made and user-friendly z-tree application for the elicitation of risk- and time-preference parameters from the most prominent...

The popularity of online behavioral experiments grew steadily even before the COVID-19 pandemic. With the start of lockdowns, online studies were often the only available option for the behavioral economists, sociologists and political scientists. The usage of most well-known platforms such as...

In an experimental study, we compare individual willingness to cooperate in a public good game after an initial team contest phase. While players in the treatment setup make a conscious decision on how much to invest in the contest, this decision is exogenously imposed on players in the control...