This paper experimentally investigates the difficulty subjects have in recognizing dominant strategies. We find, for example, that subjects playing the prisoner's dilemma game defect significantly more when they are asked to guess the move of their counterpart than when they are not so asked. We...

This paper experimentally examines gender differences in bargaining using the 'trust game' introduced by Joyce Berg, John Dickhaut and Kevin McCabe (1995). We find no significant effect of gender on trusting behavior, but find that women reciprocate their partner's trust significantly more than...

We conduct experiments to test the collective action dilemmas associated with defensive and proactive counterterror strategies. Defensive policies are associated with creating public ‘bads’ (e.g., a commons) whereas proactive policies are akin to the voluntary provision of public goods. When...

This paper identifies when other-regarding preferences (ORPs) such as trust, reciprocity and altruism will likely arise. We experimentally examine the influence of social distance and communication on ORPs in four countries. We demonstrate that country of origin significantly influences ORPs,...

Previous research has reported conflicting results on whether and the extent to which individuals play equilibria of experimental games. Two experiments reported in this paper ask whether the act of eliciting beliefs about the actions of others influences a subjects' likelihood of playing an...

Theories of commitment, altruism, and reciprocity have been invoked to explain and describe behavior in public goods and social dilemma situations. Commitment has been used to explain behaviors like water conservation and voting. Altruism has been applied to explain contributions to charities...

The bullwhip effect describes the tendency for the variance of orders in supply chains to increase as one moves upstream from consumer demand. Previous research attributes this phenomenon to both operational and behavioral causes. Operational causes are features of the institutional setting that...

The effect of alternative property rights regimes on the choice between taking an object and acquiring it via consensual exchange is experimentally explored in a two-period screening model. Experimental treatments involving card game implementation yield results that are generally consistent...