Despite a large theoretical and empirical literature on public goods and common-pool resources, a systematic comparison of these two types of social dilemmas is lacking. In fact, there is considerable confusion about these two types of dilemma situations. As a result, they are often treated...

Despite a large theoretical and empirical literature on public goods and common-pool resources, a systematic comparison of these two types of social dilemmas is lacking. In fact, there is considerable confusion about these two types of dilemma situations. As a result, they are often treated...

On 29 September 2010, the Commission adopted a commitment decision pursuant to Article 9 of Regulation 1/2003 against ENI Spa (ENI). With this decision the Commission made binding on ENI commitments that it had offered to address the Commission’s preliminary concerns regarding potential abuse...

The article introduces experimental economics as a teaching tool and as an analytical instrument in a competition policy context. Based on experimental data from two training sessions in two different competition authorities, the advantages of an experimental approach in conveying an intuitive...

Common research on decision-making investigates non-interdependent situations, i.e., games against natureʺ. However, humans are social beings and many decisions are made in social settings, where they mutually influence each other, i.e., strategic gamesʺ. Mathematical game theory gives a...

This paper experimentally investigates how monetary incentives and emotions influence behaviour in a two-player power-to-take game. In this game, one player can claim any part of the other's endowment (take rate), and the second player can respond by destroying his or her own endowment. We focus...