Behavioural and Experimental Economics

LISA ANDERSON College of William and Mary, USAJAMES ANDREONI University of California San Diego, USASHERYL BALL Virginia Tech, USAROBERT BLOOMFIELD Cornell University, USAIRIS BOHNET Harvard University, USAROB BOYD University of California Los Angeles, USACOLIN F. CAMERER California Institute of Technology, USAJEFFREY CARPENTER Middlebury College, USAYAN CHEN University of Michigan, USARACHEL T. A. CROSON University of Pennsylvania, USADOUG DAVIS Virginia Commonwealth University, USAJOHN DUFFY University of Pittsburgh, USAARMIN FALK University of Bonn, GermanyDANIEL FRIEDMAN University of California Santa Cruz, USASIMON GÄCHTER University of Nottingham, UKJACOB K. GOEREE California Institute of Technology, USAFRANCESCO GUALA The University of Exeter, UKFARUK GUL Princeton University, USAWILLIAM T. HARBAUGH University of Oregon, USAGLENN W. HARRISON University of Central Florida, USATECK H. HO University of Pennsylvania, USACHARLES A. HOLT University of Virginia, USADANIEL E. HOUSER George Mason University, USAGEORGE LOEWENSTEIN Carnegie Mellon University, USAJOHN H. KAGEL Ohio State University, USADAVID I. LAIBSON Harvard University, USAJOHN O. LEDYARD California Institute of Technology, USADAN LEVIN Ohio State University, USAJOHN A. LIST University of Chicago, USAGRAHAM LOOMES University of East Anglia, UKJACK OCHS Indiana University, USATHOMAS PALFREY California Institute of Technology, USAANTONIO RANGELCalifornia Institute of Technology, USADAVID REILEY University of Arizona, USASCOTT RICK The University of Pennsylvania, USARAJIV SETHI Columbia University, USAJASON F. SHOGREN University of Wyoming, USAVERNON L, SMITH George Mason University, USACHRIS STARMER University of Nottingham, UKLISE VESTERLUND University of Pittsburgh, USARICK K. WILSON Rice University, USA

• Contents General Preface Introduction List of Contributors List of Entries Entries A-Z Index

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