Readings:
Week One:

(1) Experimental Market Economics, Vernon Smith and Arlington Williams, Scientific
        American, December 1992. (handed out in class)


(2) Contracts, Behavior, and the Land Assembly Problem: An Experimental Study” Ryan,  

Wielgus (USNA 2009), Pamela Schmitt, Kurtis Swope, and John Cadigan


 

Week Two:

(3) z-Tree Tutorial (sections 1 and 2 handed out in class)

(4) The Competitive Advantage of Sanctioning Institutions, Gurerk, O, B   Irlenbush, B.
              Rockenback. Science 312 (7 April), pp 108-111, (2006). (handed out in class -
              supplements here)

Week Three:
       (5) The Economics of Fair Play, Sigmund, K., Fehr, E., and Howak, M. Scientific
              American, January 2002. (handed out in class)

       (6) The Moral Costs of Nastiness” Klaus Abbink and Benedikt Herrmann

       (7) A previous student paper

Week Four:
       (8) Are Risk Preferences Stable?, Anderson, Lisa R. and Mellor, J. M.,

College of William and Mary, Dept. of Econ., Working Paper #74, August 2008.

 

(9) Prof. Charles Holt’s web site http://people.virginia.edu/~cah2k/ and the

Vecon Lab’s web site http://veconlab.econ.virginia.edu/admin.htm