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Why Lying Pays: Truth Bias in the Communication with Conflicting Interests
Kawagoe, Toshiji; Takizawa, Hirokazu - EconWPA - 2005
We conduct experiments of a cheap-talk game with incomplete information in which one sender type has an incentive to …'s messages. This confirms ``truth bias'' reported in communication theory in a one-shot, anonymous environment without nonverbal … under certain conditions. We claim that the theory for the evolution of language should address why truthful communication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556670
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Low Information Games - Experimental Evidence on Learning in Ultimatum Bargaining
Slembeck, Tilman - EconWPA - 1999
This paper reports experimental evidence on behaviour in an Ultimatum Game where responders have low structural information and feedback so that they have to learn the nature of the game during repeated play. The results lend support to the view that certain learning conditions are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125583
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Choice of Prizes Allocated by Multiple Lotteries with Endogenously Determined Probabilities
Rapoport, Amnon; Lo, Alison King Chung; Zwick, Rami - EconWPA - 2001
yields only a single prize. The results show a remarkable degree of tacit coordination that supports the equilibrium solution … under the assumption of common risk-aversion. However, this coordination is not achieved via individual level randomization …
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Learning Under Little Information: An Experiment on Mutual Fate Control
Mitropoulos, Atanasios - EconWPA - 2001
Reinforcement learning has proved quite successful in predicting subjects' adjustment behaviour in repeatedly played simple games. However, reinforcement learning does not predict convergence to the efficient cell in the minimal information game of mutual fate control, while earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407543
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Behavioral Strategies in Repeated Pure Coordination Games
Zwick, Rami; Rapoport, Amnon; Lo, Alison King Chung - EconWPA - 2001
We study experimentally a class of pure coordination games as a special case of the Consumer Choice of Prizes game … developed by Rapoport et al. (2000). We find a high level of group coordination coupled with considerable switching in the …
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An Experiment on the Value of Structural Information in a 2x2 Repeated Game
Mitropoulos, Atanasios - EconWPA - 2002
In experimental studies pairs that repeatedly play the simple coordination game mutual fate control may regularly fail …
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Reputations and Fairness in Bargaining - Experimental Evidence from a Repeated Ultimatum Game With Fixed Opponents
Slembeck, Tilman - EconWPA - 1999
The results of Ultimatum Game experiments are often quoted as evidence for the role of fairness in bargaining or in economic behaviour more generally. This paper argues that the observed fairness levels are contingent on the traditional experimental design where players are newly matched each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408237
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Little Information, Efficiency, and Learning - An Experimental Study
Mitropoulos, Atanasios - EconWPA - 2001
information. This way we are able to investigate (i) the coordination abilities of the subjects depending on the underlying game …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407575
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Advertising, Pricing & Market Structure in Competitive Matching Markets
Bataille, Edner; Julien, Benoit - EconWPA - 2005
This paper develops a model of pricing and advertising in a matching environment with capacity constrained sellers. Sellers' expenditure on directly informative advertising attracts consumers only probabilistically. Consumers who happen to observe advertisements randomize over the advertised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076903
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What Price Fairness? A Bargaining Study
Zwick, Rami; Chen, Xiao-Ping - EconWPA - 1999
Our study concerns bargaining behavior in situations where one party is in a stronger position than the other. We investigate both the tradeoff the favored party makes between pursuing his strategic advantage and giving weight to other players' concern for fairness, and the tradeoff the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556668