Experiments with human subjects have been widely used to test hypotheses derived from economic theory and to provide stylized facts about empirical regularities in economics. One of the clear implications of experimental economics is that the efficiency and distributional properties of market...

This study first replicates, then perturbs, the centipede game as implemented by McKelvey and Palfrey (1992). It is thus both a replication study and an original research study. We use controlled laboratory experiments, with computer interfaces for each treatment, anonymous round-robin matching...