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...

We introduce a generalized theoretical approach to study imitation models and subject themodels to rigorous experimental testing. In our theoretical analysis we find that the differentpredictions of previous imitation models are due to different informational assumptions, notto different...

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...