Experimental Business Research

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.