This chapter reviews recent experimental data testing game theory and behavioral models that have been inspired to …

This paper uses a laboratory experiment to test the predictions of a dynamic global game designed to capture the self … find that the subjects' actions are overly aggressive relative to the theory's predictions. We further find that the excess …

incentive to abstain from expending any effort and instead free-ride on the efforts of other members. Contest theory shows that … relative to the theory. We discuss potential explanations for such over-expenditure, including the utility of winning, bounded … support for the comparative statics predictions of the theory (with the exception of the “group size paradox”). Finally …

cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial differentiation by varying the …

We review the theory of information cascades and social learning. Our goal is to describe in a relatively integrated …