Revisiting Confusion in Public Goods Experiments (2000)
Daniel Houser, Robert Kurzban, Dave Porter, Bart Wilson
anonymous referees for valuable comments on this research. The authors gratefully
What Collusion? Unilateral Market Power as a Catalyst for Countercyclical Markups
This paper presents and tests a simple model of competitive and unilateral market power regimes that yields countercyclical markups. Following a decrease in demand in the short run,...
Cost Structures and Nash Play in Repeated Cournot Games
Douglas Davis, Robert Reilly, Bart Wilson
This paper reports an experiment designed to assess the effects of a rotation in the marginal cost curve on convergence in a repeated Cournot triopoly. Increasing the cost curve's slope both reduces...
Second chance offers versus sequential auctions: theory and behavior
Ascending auctions, Ultimatum games, Mixed strategies, Experimental economics, D44, C90,
Exchange and Specialization as a Discovery Process
Sean Crockett, Vernon Smith, Bart Wilson
In this paper we study the performance of an economic environment that can support specialization if the participants implement and develop some system of exchange. We define a closed economy in...
Erik Kimbrough, Vernon Smith, Bart Wilson
This laboratory experiment explores the extent to which impersonal exchange emerges from personal exchange with opportunities for long-distance trade. We design a threecommodity production and...
Incremental approaches to establishing trust
Robert Kurzban, Mary Rigdon, Bart Wilson
Investment game, Trust, Reciprocity, Bargaining, Cooperation, Experimental economics, C72, C91,