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Inter-group conflict and intra-group punishment in an experimental contest game

Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - 2009

We study how conflict in contest games is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to punish each other. Our motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The theoretical prediction is that conflict expenditures are independent of group size and...

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Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi - 2003

Bertrand competition under decreasing returns involves a wide interval of pure strategy equilibrium prices. We first present results of experiments in which two, three and four identical firms repeatedly interact in this environment. Less collusion with more firms leads to lower average prices....

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Collusion in growing and shrinking markets: Empirical evidence from experimental duopolies

Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi - 2005

We study collusive behaviour in experimental duopolies that compete in prices under dynamic demand conditions. In one treatment the demand grows at a constant rate. In the other treatment the demand declines at another constant rate. The rates are chosen so that the evolution of the demand in...

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Complicity without connection or communication

Barr, Abigail; Michailidou, Georgia - 2016

We use a novel experiment to investigate whether people aim to coordinate when, to do so, they have to lie; and are more willing to lie when, in doing so, they are aiming to coordinate with a potential accomplice, i.e., another with whom coordination would be beneficial and who is facing the same...

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Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults

Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey; … - 2010

We measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: college students, non-student adults from the community surrounding the college, and adult trainee truckers in a residential training program. The first two groups were...

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Self-selection and variations in the laboratory measurement of other-regarding preferences across subject pools: Evidence from one college student and two adult samples

Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey; … - 2012

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Self-selection into economics experiments is driven by monetary rewards

Abeler, Johannes; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2013

Laboratory experiments have become a wide-spread tool in economic research. Yet, there is still doubt about how well the results from lab experiments generalize to other settings. In this paper, we investigate the self-selection process of potential subjects into the subject pool. We alter the...

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Confusion and reinforcement learning in experimental public goods games

Bayer, Ralph-C.; Renner, Elke; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2009

. The results show that reinforcement learning leads to dynamics similar to those observed in standard public goods games … explained by reinforcement learning. According to our estimates, learning only accounts for 41 percent of the decay in …, differ strongly from the learning dynamics, while a learning model estimated from the limited information treatment tracks …

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Confusion and learning in the voluntary contributions game

Bayer, Ralph-C.; Renner, Elke; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2012

learning cannot generate the kind of contribution dynamics commonly attributed to the existence of conditional cooperators. We … learning. …

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Belief formation in a signalling game without common prior: An experiment

Possajennikov, Alex - 2012

Using belief elicitation, the paper investigates the formation and the evolution of beliefs in a signalling game in which a common prior on Sender's type is not induced. Beliefs are elicited about the type of the Sender and about the strategies of the players. The experimental subjects often...

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