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A. Willis Robertson Professor of Political Economy
Department of Economics 
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University of Virginia 
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4182  USA 
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Veconlab Software for about 40 web-based experiments run on any PCs that are connected to the Internet.  The administrator's setup menu is available at: http://veconlab.econ.virginia.edu/admin.htm. For a brief introduction and instructions on obtaining a password, click here.   The software is associated with an undergraduate experimental economics textbook, forthcoming with Addison-Wesley in 2006. Class use prior to publication must be cleared with them, see the cover page of the pdf file, which contains a Table of Contents and selected sample chapters: Webgames and Strategic Behavior: Recipes for Interactive Learning.

Y2K Bibliography of Experimental Economics,
with exactly 2000 listed publications and almost 500 working papers in experimental economics and social science.  Also ... 

"Economic Science: An Experimental Approach for Teaching and Research" This is based on my Presidential Address to the Southern Economic Association, Southern Economic Journal, 2003, 69(4), 755-771.

"Ten Little Treasures of Game Theory, and Ten Intuitive Contradictions" (with J. Goeree), which reviews standard categories of games and reports anomalous results for each, American Economic Review, Decenber 2001, 91, 1402-1422..

A new theory of behavior in games played only once: "A Model of Noisy Introspection," (with J. Goeree), forthcoming in Games and Economic Behavior

Some dramatic results of high-stakes lottery choice experiments: "Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects" (with Susan Laury) American Economic Review, December 2002, 1644-1655.

This is a summary of my work on stochastic game theory, written for a broad scientific audience: "Stochastic game theory: for playing games, not just for doing theory" (with J. Goeree), S99 Proc. of the National Academy of Sciences.
 If you want to see a game where the data go to the opposite side of the set of feasible decisions from the unique Nash equilibrium, see "Anomalous Behavior in a Traveler's Dilemma?" (with M. Capra, J. Goeree, and R. Gomez), American Economic Review, June 1999, 89, 678-90..

You can play the Traveler's Dilemma on line: http://veconlab.econ.virginia.edu/tddemo.php

"Anomalous Behavior in Binary Choice Games: Entry, Voting, Public Goods, and the Volunteer's Dilemma," (with J. Goeree), revised June 2003, forthcoming in the American Political Science Review

Recent experimental studies with various coauthors (the citations for published versions of these papers can be found on my vita):

* contributions to a public good: noise and altruism
* coordination games and stochastic potential
* imperfect price competition and learning dynamics
* bargaining and inequity aversion
* risk aversion in matching pennies games
* private value auctions and risk aversion 
* common value auctions and risk aversion
* signaling games and learning
* prospect theory, incentives and the "reflection effect"
* experiments used to design the 2000 Georgia Irrigation Auction


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