PREFACE Amnon Rapoport University of Arizona and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Rami Zwick Hong Kong University of Science and Technology This volume (and volume III) includes papers that were presented and discussed at the Second Asian Conference on Experimental Business Research held at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) on December 16-19, 2003. The conference was a follow up to the ?rst conference that was held on December 7-10, 1999, the papers of which were published in the ?rst volume (Zwick, Rami and Amnon Rapoport (Eds.), (2002) Experimental Business Research. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Norwell, MA and Dordrecht, The Netherlands). The conference was organized by the Center for Experimental Business Research (cEBR) at HKUST and was chaired by Amnon Rapoport and Rami Zwick. The program committee members were Paul Brewer, Kenneth Shunyuen Chan, Soo Hong Chew, Sudipto Dasgupta, Richard Fielding, James R. Frederickson, Gilles Hilary, Ching- Chyi Lee, Siu Fai Leung, Ling Li, Francis T Lui, Sarah M Mcghee, Fang Fang Tang, Winton Au Wing Tung, and Raymond Yeung. The papers presented at the conference and a few others that were solicited especially for this volume contain original research on individual and interactive decision behavior in various branches of business research including, but not limited to, economics, marketing, management, ?nance, and accounting.

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Durable Goods Lease Contracts and Used-Goods Market Behavior: An Experimental Study.- Towards a Hybrid Model of Microeconomic and Financial Price Adjustment Processes: The Case of a Market with Continuously Refreshed Supply and Demand.- Choosing a Model out of Many Possible Alternatives: Emissions Trading as an Example.- Internet Congestion: A Laboratory Experiment.- Experimental Evidence on the Endogenous Entry of Bidders in Internet Auctions.- Hard and Soft Closes: A Field Experiment on Auction Closing Rules.- When Does an Incentive for Free Riding Promote Rational Bidding?.- Bonus versus Penalty: Does Contract Frame Affect Employee Effort?.- Managerial Incentives and Competition.- Dynamic Stability of Nash-Efficient Public Goods Mechanisms: Reconciling Theory and Experiments.- Entry Times in Queues with Endogenous Arrivals: Dynamics of Play on the Individual and Aggregate Levels.- Decision Making with Naïve Advice.- Failure of Bayesian Updating in Repeated Bilateral Bargaining.