Organizers:

Douglas D. Davis, Virginia Commonwealth University

Session Chairs:

Juergen Huber, University of Innsbruck and Yale University

Papers:

"The Effects of the Tobin Tax on an Experimental Financial Market"
Juergen Huber, University of Innsbruck and Yale University (Contact Author)

"Industrial Politics: An Experimental Test of Sabotage in Tournaments"
Donald Vandegrift, The College of New Jersey
Abdullah Yavas, Pennsylvania State University

"A Comparison of Generalized Plurality and Cumulative Voting"
Arthur Zillante, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Duane Cooper, Morehouse College

"Quantal Response Equilibrium Models of Growth Economies with Poverty Traps"
Tomomi Tanaka, California Institute of Technology
Colin Camerer, California Institute of Technology

Discussants:

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Franklin & Marshall College and University of Arizona
Sudipta Sarangi, Louisiana State University
Svetlana Pevnitskaya, Florida State University

Organizers:

Douglas D. Davis, Virginia Commonwealth University

Session Chairs:

Juergen Huber, University of Innsbruck and Yale University

Papers:

"Information Processing in Strategic Environments: Herds and Cascades in Markets with Sequential Bids: An Experimental Analysis"
George Joseph, Rutgers University
Barry Sopher, Rutgers University

"When Better Forecasting Abilities Can Be Harmful: Information From An Experimental Financial Market"
Juergen Huber, University of Innsbruck and Yale University (Contact Author)

"Rematching, Information and Sequence Effects in Extensively Repeated Posted Offer Markets"
Douglas D. Davis, Virginia Commonwealth University
Oleg Korenok, Virginia Commonwealth University
Robert J. Reilly, Virginia Commonwealth University

Discussants:

Mathias Erlei, Clausthal University of Technology
Ryan Oprea, University of California - Santa Cruz
Jamie Brown Kruse, East Carolina University and Center for Natural Hazards Research

Organizers:

R. Mark Isaac, Florida State University

Session Chairs:

R. Mark Isaac, Florida State University

Papers:

"Impact of Beliefs and Risk Preferences on Bidding in Auctions"
Svetlana Pevnitskaya, Florida State University (Contact Author)

"An Experimental Study of Auctions with a Buy Price Under Private and Common Values"
Quazi Shahriar, University of Arizona
John Wooders, University of Arizona

"Experiments With Price Preference Auctions"
R. Mark Isaac, Florida State University
Svetlana Pevnitskaya, Florida State University
Timothy Salmon, Florida State University

Discussants:

George Joseph, Rutgers University
Juergen Huber, University of Innsbruck and Yale University
Bart J. Wilson, George Mason University
Donald Vandegrift, The College of New Jersey