A simple economic teaching experiment on the hold-up problem
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- Dieter Balkenborg & Todd Kaplan & Timothy Miller, 2012. "A Simple Economic Teaching Experiment on the Hold-Up Problem," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(4), pages 377-385, October.
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Keywords
classroom experiment; holdup problem;JEL classification:
- L14 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation
- K12 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Contract Law
- C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2010-09-11 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-GTH-2010-09-11 (Game Theory)
- NEP-IND-2010-09-11 (Industrial Organization)
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