Physical lab experiments have played an instrumental role in sculpting the history of experimental economics, facilitating controlled information conditions, efficient monetary inducements, and exclusive advantages via immediate human interaction and engaging experiences. These unique benefits...

Rapid technological diffusion has led to a heavy reliance on digital communication media, fundamentally changing how people transact and coordinate. In this paper, we study how adopting digital communication impacts allocative efficiency and welfare distributions in a Coasian bargaining...

This study revisits Engelmann and Strobel (2004), who test the theoretical models of fairness preferences with simple distribution games. We execute the experiment by recruiting a panel of subjects via the online platform Amazon Mechanical Turk three years prior and directly within the COVID-19...

Combining experimental datasets from seven individual studies, including 255 asset markets with 2,031 participants, and 36,326 short-term price forecasts, we analyze the role of heterogeneity of beliefs in the organization of trading behavior by reproducing and reconsidering earlier experimental...

Democracies go to war with each other less frequently than dictatorships do with each other. This isan established empirical regularity. However, it is not clear whether there is a causal link betweendemocracy and peace. We use laboratory experiments to study whether there is a causal impact. We...

Cronyism in firms arises when favoritism toward an ingroup affects personnel decisions. Two main motives underlie cronyism: profit, if an ingroup employee works harder; or altruism, if used to transfer resources. In a lab-experiment trust game with naturally-occurring groups, an employer...

An influential result in the literature on charitable giving is that matching subsidies dominate rebate subsidies in raising funds. We investigate whether this result extends to “unit donation” schemes, a popular alternative form of soliciting donations. There, the donors’ choices are over...