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A Common Pool Resource Game with Sequential Decisions and Experimental Evidence

Bru, Lluis; Cabrera, Susana; Capra, C.; Gomez, Rosario - In: Experimental Economics 6 (2003) 1, pp. 91-114

We describe a common pool resource game in which players choose how much of the stock to extract in a sequential manner. There are two choices and one represents taking a larger proportion of the stock than the other. After a player makes a choice, the remaining stock grows at a constant rate....

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Buyer Liability and Voluntary Inspections in International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading: A Laboratory Study

Cason, Timothy - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 25 (2003) 1, pp. 101-127

This paper reports a preliminary laboratoryexperiment in which traders make investments toincrease the reliability of tradableinstruments that represent greenhouse gasemissions allowances. In one half of thesessions these investments are unobservable,while in the other half traders can...

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Adolescent-Adult Interactions and Culture in the Ultimatum Game

Hoffmann, Robert; Tee, Jin-Yee - Business School, University of Nottingham - 2003

We report on ultimatum game experiments conducted with same-age as well as mixed-age groups of Asian adolescents and …

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Information and Learning in Bertrand and Cournot Experimental Duopolies

Luini, Luigi; Altavilla, Carlo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2003

In this paper we report the results from a series of experiments on Cournot (homogeneous and differentiated products … set, the experiments are designed with three alternative information set up: I) no information (participants are only … successful actions). The effect of different information structures on individual behaviour in market experiments is a long …

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Clean Evidence on Peer Pressure

Falk, Armin; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

, field experiments offer the possibility of obtaining clean evidence. In this Paper we measure the output of four randomly …

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Conditional cooperation and group dynamics: Experimental evidence from a sequential public goods game

Houser, Daniel; Kurzban, Robert - EconWPA - 2003

We design a novel sequential public goods experiment to study reciprocity, or conditional cooperation. In contrast to the standard simultaneous contribution game, our sequential design provides direct evidence on how subjects condition their own contributions on the contributions of other...

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Imitation - Theory and Experimental Evidence

Apesteguia, Jose; Huck, Steffen; Oechssler, Jorg - EconWPA - 2003

We introduce a generalized theoretical approach to study imitation models and subject the models to rigorous experimental testing. In our theoretical analysis we find that the different predictions of previous imitation models are due to different informational assumptions, not to different...

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An Experimental Study of Storable Votes

Casella, Alessandra; Gelman, Andrew; Palfrey, Thomas R. - California Institute of Technology, Division of the … - 2003

implementation. In our experiments, realized efficiency levels were remarkably close to theoretical equilibrium predictions, while …

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In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small- Scale Societies,

Fehr, Ernst; Henrich, Joseph; Boyd, Robert - EconWPA - 2003

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Risk Preference Differentials of Small Groups and Individuals

Shupp, Robert; Williams, Arlington - Department of Economics, Ball State University - 2003

The risk preferences of three-person groups and individuals are compared using a non-sequential repeated-measures lottery experiment with $20 per-player win percentages varying from 10% to 90%. Analysis based on independent samples of certainty equivalent ratios (certainty equivalent/expected...

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