Trading Experiments

Play our trading (double auction) games, acting as either buyer or seller like in the seminal experiments by Vernon Smith (1962).

Other Experimental Games

p-Beauty Contest

The famous guessing game invented by Herve Moulin and dedicated to John Maynard Keynes: guess p-times (e.g. half, or two thirds) the average guess.

Create p-Beauty Contest

Voluntary Contribution Game

Everyone decides how much of his/her budget to allocate between a private account and a group account. What is placed by an individual in his/her private account turns into private payoffs immediately. The total sum of what is placed in the group account is multiplied by a fixed marginal-per-capita-rate-of-return (usually between 1/n and 1).

Create Voluntary Contribution Game

Second-Price Auction

One of the standard auctions, here in the standard Vickrey version: everyone submits a sealed bid, and the highest bid wins paying the second-highest bid.

Create Second-Price Auction

Voluntary Contribution Game with Punishment

Same as the Voluntary Contributions Game, but with the option to ‘punish’: a player can pay a certain amount to reduce others’ payoffs.

Create Voluntary Contribution Game with Punishment

Our team

Alexander Ehlert
Behavioral Economics

Bary SR Pradelski
Learning in Games

Heiko Rauhut
Experimental Game Theory

Heinrich H Nax
Behavioral Game Theory

Acknowledgements

This is an open platform to run interactive live classroom and online experiments hosted at UZH, supported by a UZH teaching grant for “Mobile field laboratory for social scientists”.

Data Usage

All data collected during any of the experiments is anonymous and may be used and shared for research purposes.