Economics and behavior games
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Choose a Pukllay game to participate in the laboratory or prepare an activity for your class.
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Common-Pool Resource
Choose how much effort to devote to a shared fishery and explore group decisions, rules and outcomes.
9 topics
- Social preferences, fairness and reciprocity
- Cooperation and collective action
- Strategic interaction and coordination
- Incentives, contracts and agency
- Information, beliefs and learning
- Social norms, identity and ethics
- Public goods, externalities and common resources
- Institutions, governance and political economy
- Environment, sustainability and international cooperation
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Dictator Game
Explore altruism, fairness and social preferences through a simple allocation decision.
5 topics
- Social preferences, fairness and reciprocity
- Social norms, identity and ethics
- Information, beliefs and learning
- Attention, framing and choice architecture
- Inequality, redistribution and public policy
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Endowment Effect and the WTP/WTA Gap
Value goods and make buying, selling and exchange choices in an individual activity.
8 topics
- Bounded rationality and cognitive biases
- Attention, framing and choice architecture
- Markets, exchange and price formation
- Auctions and mechanism design
- Information, beliefs and learning
- Finance and consumer decisions
- Risk, uncertainty and ambiguity
- Environment, sustainability and international cooperation
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Anomalies of Expected Utility Theory
Explore individual choices between monetary alternatives involving risk and uncertainty.
5 topics
- Risk, uncertainty and ambiguity
- Bounded rationality and cognitive biases
- Attention, framing and choice architecture
- Auctions and mechanism design
- Finance and consumer decisions
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Gift Exchange
A wage and a subsequent effort decision let the class explore contracts, incentives and reciprocity.
6 topics
- Social preferences, fairness and reciprocity
- Incentives, contracts and agency
- Information, beliefs and learning
- Social norms, identity and ethics
- Work, organizations and motivation
- Institutions, governance and political economy
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Identity and Belief Formation
Explore decisions and beliefs when information or partners carry randomly assigned group labels.
5 topics
- Social preferences, fairness and reciprocity
- Social norms, identity and ethics
- Information, beliefs and learning
- Incentives, contracts and agency
- Bargaining and conflict resolution
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Moonlighting
One person may give or take; the other can return resources, punish or do nothing. Explore decisions and responses.
7 topics
- Social preferences, fairness and reciprocity
- Bargaining and conflict resolution
- Strategic interaction and coordination
- Incentives, contracts and agency
- Information, beliefs and learning
- Social norms, identity and ethics
- Inequality, redistribution and public policy
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Prisoner’s Dilemma
Choose between two options and explore how cooperation, agreements and outcomes change with information and institutions.
11 topics
- Social preferences, fairness and reciprocity
- Cooperation and collective action
- Bargaining and conflict resolution
- Strategic interaction and coordination
- Incentives, contracts and agency
- Information, beliefs and learning
- Social norms, identity and ethics
- Risk, uncertainty and ambiguity
- Attention, framing and choice architecture
- Institutions, governance and political economy
- Environment, sustainability and international cooperation
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Public Goods Game
Four people allocate resources between private and collective accounts. Explore contributions and how the rules change their outcomes.
8 topics
- Social preferences, fairness and reciprocity
- Cooperation and collective action
- Strategic interaction and coordination
- Incentives, contracts and agency
- Information, beliefs and learning
- Social norms, identity and ethics
- Attention, framing and choice architecture
- Public goods, externalities and common resources
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Inequality, Taxation and Redistribution
Choose redistributive policies and examine how income, production and political rules affect collective outcomes.
5 topics
- Social preferences, fairness and reciprocity
- Inequality, redistribution and public policy
- Institutions, governance and political economy
- Incentives, contracts and agency
- Information, beliefs and learning
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Social Punishment and Formal Sanctions
Explore transfers, costly social responses and formal rules in anonymous group interactions.
5 topics
- Social preferences, fairness and reciprocity
- Social norms, identity and ethics
- Institutions, governance and political economy
- Incentives, contracts and agency
- Bargaining and conflict resolution
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Social Norms
Explore how people evaluate actions, form expectations and respond to their social context.
5 topics
- Social preferences, fairness and reciprocity
- Social norms, identity and ethics
- Information, beliefs and learning
- Strategic interaction and coordination
- Incentives, contracts and agency
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Trust Game
Send resources, decide how much to return, and explore trust, reciprocity and the creation of surplus.
6 topics
- Social preferences, fairness and reciprocity
- Cooperation and collective action
- Incentives, contracts and agency
- Information, beliefs and learning
- Social norms, identity and ethics
- Risk, uncertainty and ambiguity
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Ultimatum Game
Propose a division, accept or reject it, and explore fairness, bargaining power and costly rejection.
7 topics
- Social preferences, fairness and reciprocity
- Bargaining and conflict resolution
- Strategic interaction and coordination
- Incentives, contracts and agency
- Information, beliefs and learning
- Social norms, identity and ethics
- Inequality, redistribution and public policy
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