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In this experiment, you will play the role of an investor in government bonds. A government bond is a debt instrument issued by a national government to support government spending.

The experiment has 3 rounds. The first round is a practice round it has 5 periods. Rounds 2 and 3 have 10 periods each. In each round, you will be paired with 4 other participants. You will stay in the same group of 5 for an entire round, groups will change randomly in each round. You will not know which of the other participants belong to your group in a given round. From investors’ perspective, each round is independent from the others.

In each period of each round, you and the other participants in your group borrow 1000 Experimental Currency (EC), which you can use to buy government bonds. If you buy a bond you can earn a return, which will be your potential gain in that period. If you do not purchase any bonds your return is zero.

At the end of the game, the computer will pick at random one period from Rounds 2 or 3 (the practice round is not considered for deciding payment) and you will be paid the return from that period converted into EURO at a conversion rate: 10 EC is 1 Euro.

The structure of the experiment is:



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