Experimental Economics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Experiments in Economics

   • Pablo Branas-Garza, Iván Barreda

   Pages 1-16

3. Individual Decision-Making

   • Manel Baucells, Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos

   Pages 17-33

4. Game Theory: Basic Concepts

   • Penélope Hernández, Marina Pavan

   Pages 34-52

5. Coordination Games

   • Maríapaz Espinosa, Penélope Hernández

   Pages 53-71

6. Initial Responses in Strategic Situations

   • Nagore Iriberri, Pedro Rey-Biel

   Pages 72-86

7. Social Preferences

   • Antonio Cabrales, Giovanni Ponti

   Pages 87-104

8. Cooperation

   • Juan Antonio Lacomba, Raúl López-Pérez

   Pages 105-123

9. Bargaining

   • Aurora García-Gallego, Luis M. Miller

   Pages 124-134

10. Responses from the Body: An Introduction to Neuroeconomics

    • Giorgio Coricelli, Rosemarie Nagel

    Pages 135-153

11. Gender Differences in Cooperation and Competition

    • Roberto Hernán, Praveen Kujal

    Pages 154-168

12. Back Matter

    Pages 169-189

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How do humans make choices, both when facing nature and when interacting with one another? Experimental Economics Volume I seeks to answer these questions by examining individual's choices in strategic settings and predicting choices based on experimental methodology.

• Experimental economics
• behavioural economics
• decision making
• neuroeconomics
• experimental game theory
• social preferences
• business
• economics
• experimental economics
• game theory
• macroeconomics
• management
• operation research

• Middlesex University, London, UK

  Pablo Branas-Garza

• University College London, UK

  Antonio Cabrales

Pablo Branas-Garza joined Middlesex University as Professor of Behavioural Economics in October 2012. Previously he was Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Granada, Spain, since 2008. He did his PhD in Quantitative Economics (1997) in the University of Córdoba, Spain. His research focuses on experimental games and economic behaviour. More specifically he works on altruism and cooperative behaviour, cognitive abilities and preferences.

He has published in leading journals such as Proceedings Royal Society B, Games & Economic Behavior, PLoS ONE, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Economics Letters, Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Money, Credit & Banking. He is an Academic Editor of PLoS ONE and Associate Editor of The Journal of Experimental and Behavioral Economics.
 
Antonio Cabrales is Professor of Economics at University College London. Formerly, he was a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain and Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, Spain. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California, San Diego, US. He has worked in a wide range of topics: learning and evolutionary games, experimental economics, industrial organization, the economics of networks and mechanism design. He is an associate editor at the Journal of Economic Theory, and SERIEs. He has been an Editor of the Berkeley Electronic Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy and Investigaciones Económicas; and Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association. He is founding partner of a financial consultant (Serfiex S.A.) and has been a consultant on competition policy issues.

He has published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, Physical Review Letters, PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and other scholarly journals.

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