Research at the
Pittsburgh Experimental Economics Lab

Experimental research using the Pittsburgh Experimental Economics Laboratory focuses on economic decision-making by individuals or groups of individuals in a number of carefully controlled economic environments.

Our laboratory can be configured to run a wide variety of computerized experiments, and our pool of participants within the University of Pittsburgh community is diverse.

We invite you to learn more about our research activities by exploring the many key areas of our involvment within the academic community.

• Publications lists published research by our faculty.
  
• Working Papers lists research papers that are still in progress or under review.
• Data provides text files with data from various different laboratory studies.
• Seminar Series Gives information concerning the seminars involving our areas of research.

Recent Publications

2005

Duffy, John and Eric O'N Fisher "Sunspots in the Laboratory," American Economic Review June 2005, 95(3): 510-529.

Duffy, John and Minseong Kim "Anarchy in the Laboratory (and the Role of the State)," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization March 2005, 56(3): 297-329.

Duffy, John and Ed Hopkins "Learning, Information and Sorting in Market Entry Games: Theory and Evidence," Games and Economic Behavior April 2005, 51(1): 31-62.

Potters, Jan, Martin Sefton and Lise Vesterlund, "After You--Endogenous Sequencing in Voluntary Contribution Games," Journal of Public Economics, August 2005, 89(8), 1399-1419.

2003

Andreoni, James, William Harbaugh and Lise Vesterlund, "The Carrot or the Stick: Rewards, Punishments, and Cooperation," American Economic Review, June 2003, 93(3): 893-902.

2002

Andreoni, James, Paul M. Brown and Lise Vesterlund, "What Makes an Allocation Fair? Some Experimental Evidence," Games and Economic Behavior, July 2002, 40(1): 1-24.

Blume, Andreas, Douglas V. DeJong, George R. Neumann and N.E. Savin, "Learning and Communication in Sender-Receiver Games: An Econometric Investigation," Journal of Applied Econometrics, May-June 2002, 17(3): 225-47.

Duffy, John and Jack Ochs, "Intrinsically Worthless Objects as Media of Exchange: Experimental Evidence," International Economic Review, August 2002, 43(3): 637-73.

Duffy, John and Nick Feltovich, "Do Actions Speak Louder than Words? "An Experimental Comparison of Observation and Cheap Talk," Games and Economic Behavior, April 2002, 39(1): 1-27.

Harbaugh, William T., Kate Krause and Lise Vesterlund, "Risk Attitudes of Children and Adults: Choices over Small and Large Probability Gains and Losses," Experimental Economics, June 2002 5(1): 53-84.

2001

Andreoni, James and Lise Vesterlund, "Which Is the Fair Sex? Gender Differences in Altruism," Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2001, 116(1): 293-312.

Blume, Andreas, Douglas V. DeJong, Yong-Gwan Kim and Geoffrey B. Sprinkle, "Evolution of Communication with Partial Common Interest," Games and Economic Behavior, October 2001, 37(1): 79-120.

Duffy, John, "Learning to Speculate: Experiments with Artificial and Real Agents," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, March 2001, 25(3-4): 295-319.

Harbaugh, William T., Kate Krause and Lise Vesterlund, "Are Adults Better Behaved Than Children? Age, Experience, and the Endowment Effect," Economics Letters, February 2001, 70(2): 175-81.

2000

Blume, Andreas and Uri Gneezy, "An Experimental Investigation of Optimal Learning in Coordination Games," Journal of Economic Theory, January 2000, 90(1): 161-72.

Working Papers
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Seminars

Data
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