Working Papers
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All ExCEN Working papers
Assigning Intentions when Actions are Unobservable: the Impact of Trembling in the Trust Game 60.86 KB 112 downloads
This paper reports laboratory experiments investigating behavior when players may...
Barking Up the Right Tree: Are Small Groups Rational Agents? 87.08 KB 124 downloads
Both mainstream economics and its critics have focused on models of individual rational...
Small- and Large-Stakes Risk Aversion: Implications of Concavity Calibration for Decision Theory 127.53 KB 119 downloads
A growing literature reports the conclusions that: (a) expected utility theory does...
Coordination of Purchasing and Bidding Activities Across Markets 102.85 KB 112 downloads
In both consumer purchasing and industrial procurement, combinatorial interdependencies...
A Tractable Model of Reciprocity and Fairness 331.32 KB 121 downloads
We introduce a parametric model of other-regarding preferences in which my emotional...
EconPort: Creating and Maintaining a Knowledge Commons 59.41 KB 113 downloads
Public and academic libraries are traditionally designed and run by librarians and...
When are Women More Generous than Men? 102.54 KB 107 downloads
Previous research on gender differences in behavior has led to seemingly contradictory...
Estimating the Value of Water Use Permits: A hedonic approach applied to farmland in the southeastern US 252.55 KB 107 downloads
In the State of Georgia, agricultural irrigation permits in the Flint River Basin...
Revealed Altruism 0.00 KB 115 downloads
(Revised as 2007-06) This paper develops a nonparametric theory of preferences over...
Implications of Trust, Fear, and Reciprocity for Modeling Economic Behavior 176.39 KB 109 downloads
This paper reports three experiments with triadic or dyadic designs. The experiments...
Trust, Fear, Reciprocity, and Altruism: Theory and Experiment 110.80 KB 135 downloads
This paper describes central topics in our research program on social preferences....
Using Meta Analysis for Benefits Transfer: Theory and Practice 131.39 KB 118 downloads
A meta-analysis, or the “study of studies”, attempts to statistically measure...
Direct Tests of Models of Social Preferences and a New Model 0.00 KB 116 downloads
(Revised as 2010-03) Departures from “economic man” behavior in many games in...
Altruism Spillovers: Are Behaviors in Context-Free Experiments Predictive of Altruism Toward a Naturally Occurring Public Good? 176.06 KB 112 downloads
This paper addresses the external validity of experiments investigating the characteristics...
Procurement Auctions for Differentiated Goods 0.00 KB 110 downloads
(Revised as 2009-07) We consider two mechanisms to procure differentiated goods:...
Voting cycles when a dominant point exists 270.69 KB 107 downloads
We consider a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties....
Learning about Learning in Games through Experimental Control of Strategic Interdependence 0.00 KB 113 downloads
(Revised as 2008-06) We conduct experiments in which humans repeatedly play one...
Let Me Vote! An experimental study of vote rotation in committees 0.00 KB 113 downloads
(Revised as 2013-07) We conduct an experiment to investigate (i) whether rotation...
A computational electoral competition model with social clustering and endogenous interest groups as information brokers 290.67 KB 109 downloads
We extend the basic model of spatial competition in two directions. First, political...
Discrimination in the Lab: Experiments Exploring the Impact of Performance and Appearance on Sorting and Cooperation 0.00 KB 167 downloads
(Revised as 2007-02) We present experimental evidence consistent with statistical...
Revealing Preferences for Fairness in Ultimatum Bargaining 234.92 KB 116 downloads
The ultimatum game has been the primary tool for studying bargaining behavior in...
Beauty, Gender and Stereotypes: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments 219.18 KB 107 downloads
The existence of a beauty premium in the labor market and the male-female wage gap...
Further Reflections on Prospect Theory 177.19 KB 122 downloads
This paper reports a new experimental test of prospect theory’s reflection effect....
Pay One or Pay All: Random Selection of One Choice for Payment 57.23 KB 118 downloads
It has become increasingly common in economics experiments to elicit a series of...
Explanation and Misrepresentation in the Laboratory 178.18 KB 110 downloads
We report the results of an experiment designed to examine the effect of opportunity...
On Modeling Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods 220.21 KB 125 downloads
This paper addresses four ìstylized factsî that summarize data from experimental...
Social Distance and Reciprocity 158.53 KB 118 downloads
Contrary to the predictions of non-cooperative game theory, trust and reciprocity...
When the Shoe is on the Other Foot: Experimental Evidence on Valuation Disparities 61.38 KB 111 downloads
The method of elicitation has an important effect on valuations. We investigate the...
Social Barriers to Cooperation: Experiments on the Extent and Nature of Discrimination in Peru 230.45 KB 108 downloads
We present a series of experiments to understand the nature and extent of discrimination...
Discrimination in the Lab: Experiments Exploring the Impact of Performance and Appearance on Sorting and Cooperation 180.58 KB 520 downloads
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