In this paper, I present my perspective on the interaction between experimental and empirical economics. This is a written version of remarks originally made at a conference on experimental-economics methodology at New York University, where I was asked to discuss two papers, one by John Kagel,...

We conducted a field experiment on the Internet and investigated the participants' belief updating in an individual learning environment where they observe a sequence of private signals and in a social learning environment where they observe a sequence of other people's actions. We observed that...

Numerous researchers have examined entrepreneurshipfrom varied perspectives, analyzing by units such as the individual, theenvironment, the project, and the new organization. However, researchers fromother fields often criticize entrepreneurship research for several reasonsincluding the lack of...

We study the effects of network externalities on a unique matching protocol for faculty in a large U.S. professional school to offices in a new building. We collected institutional, web, and survey data on faculty's attributes and choices. We first identify the different layers of the social...

This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...

This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the preferences of fishermen whose main, and often only, source of income stems from using a common pool resource (CPR). The exploitation of a CPR involves a negative interpersonal and...