Before I read this much awaited book I had intended to write an essay review but having finished it I can only call to mind Tolstoy's famous observation in Anna Karenina that "All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way". In other words, to write an essay review requires at least some points of contention and preferably large areas of disagreement ...

One of the functions of reputations in societies is to enable coordination, and some of the most familiar instances of this occur when reputations are based on past actions. For example, a history of aggressive play is often interpreted as predicting more aggressive play in the future. This permits a pair of individuals with unequal reputations for aggressiveness to avoid wasteful conßict that ...

This study implements decision support systems (DSS) in a business simulation game. Fifty-Eight companies, consisting of about 300 senior graduate students participating in a business game, developed DSS and reported on the systems developed. We later evaluated a number of variables related to their DSS: use of systems, contribution of systems, and user satisfaction. Our findings validate the u...

In this paper we describe the ballistic bunching compression experiment at the Neptune photoinjector at UCLA. We have compressed the beam by chirping the beam energy spectrum in a short S-band high gradient standing wave RF cavity and then letting the electrons undergo velocity compression in the subsequent rectilinear drift. Using a standard Martin Puplett interferometer for coherent transitio...

This paper describes the experiment for learning and investigation of the helicopter laboratory model static and dynamic characteristics. Helicopter model is not the free flying one, as it has the two degrees of freedom – up / down movement and rotation with respect to vertical axis of the main propeller. The two basic different kinds of experiments with the helicopter model are possible. In th...

We conduct a laboratory experiment with a constant-sum sender-receiver game to investigate the impact of individuals’ firstand second-order beliefs on truth-telling. While senders are more likely to lie if they expect the receiver to trust their message (which is in line with expected payoff maximization), they are also more likely to tell the truth if they believe the receiver expects them to ...