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Games, Volume 13, Issue 2

April 2022 - 13 articles

Cover Story: We investigate why a firm might purposefully hire a chief executive officer (CEO) who under- or over-estimates the degree of substitutability between competing products. We show that this behavioral bias will not occur in perfect competition or monopoly. In imperfect competition, however, CEO bias may prove profitable because it can affect rival behavior and the intensity of competition. We lay out the conditions under which it is profitable for owners to hire biased managers. Our work shows that a universal policy that effectively eliminates such biases need not improve social welfare. View this paper.
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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,064 Views
30 Pages

14 April 2022

In a domestic market, a duopoly produces a homogeneous final good, pollution, pollution abatement, and R&D, which reduces abatement cost. One of the firms (foreign) has superior technology. The government regulates the duopoly by levying a pollut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,177 Views
14 Pages

13 April 2022

This paper presents an incentivized experiment analyzing the role of demographic characteristics in individual decision-making under uncertainty. Reactions to a natural source of uncertainty, payoffs in a TV game show, were measured using Fuzzy-set Q...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,874 Views
14 Pages

11 April 2022

Experiments on revealed preference often use budget sets that are randomly and independently drawn according to some criteria for each participant. However, this means that the budget sets faced by different individuals are not the same. This paper p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,195 Views
23 Pages

CEO Bias and Product Substitutability in Oligopoly Games

  • Elizabeth Schroeder,
  • Carol Horton Tremblay and
  • Victor J. Tremblay

31 March 2022

We investigate why a firm might purposefully hire a chief executive officer (CEO) who under- or over-estimates the degree of substitutability between competing products. This counterintuitive result arises in imperfect competition because CEO bias ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,955 Views
28 Pages

An Experimental Study of Strategic Voting and Accuracy of Verdicts with Sequential and Simultaneous Voting

  • Lisa R. Anderson,
  • Charles A. Holt,
  • Katri K. Sieberg and
  • Beth A. Freeborn

30 March 2022

In a model of simultaneous voting, Feddersen and Pesendorfer (1998) consider the possibility that jurors vote strategically, rather than sincerely reflecting their individual information. This results in the counterintuitive result that a jury is mor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,414 Views
6 Pages

25 March 2022

I characterize the optimal accuracy level r of an unbiased Tullock contest between two players with heterogeneous prize valuations. The designer maximizes the winning probability of the strong player or the winner’s expected valuation by choosi...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
3,149 Views
3 Pages

10 March 2022

Social identity theory has become increasingly important for economists. I discuss the contribution of Van Bavel and Packer’s “The Power of Us” in light of what economists (especially experimental ones) can learn from their research.

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Games - ISSN 2073-4336