A popular approach to explain over-contribution in public good games is based on the assumption that people care (either positively or negatively) about the utility of other participants. Over-contribution then is an outcome of utility maximization where utility depends on subjects' own payoffs...

We experimentally study the profitability of pricing mechanisms that allow customers to quote their own prices, such as Priceline.com's Name-Your-Own-Price (NYOP). Presumably firms find this sales method profit-maximizing despite the concerns that NYOP web-sites can cannibalize profit from...

The goal of the paper is to test the importance of such factors as fairness, reciprocation and altruism in subjects' reasoning. I consider the phantom treatment where subjects are randomly matched with the decisions that were made in the (separate) benchmark treatment, and two-type treatments...