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We study how the willingness to enter long-term bilateral relationships affects cooperation even when parties have little information about each other, ex ante, and cooperation is otherwise unenforceable. We experimentally investigate a finitely-repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma, allowing players to...
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This paper investigates simultaneous learning about both nature and others' actions in repeated games, and identifies a …
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This paper extends the convergence result on Bayesian learning in Kalai and Lehrer (1993a, 1993b) to a class of games …
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show that the success in learning the opponent’s type depends on the characteristics of the true game. The learning success … equilibrium and we observe no correlation between equilibrium play and learning about the game. …
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Being good-looking seems to generate substantial benefits in many social interactions, making the "beauty premium" a not to be underrated economic factor. This paper investigates how physical attractiveness enables people to generate these benefits in the case of cooperation, using field data...
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In this note we show that no solution to coalition formation games can satisfy a set of axioms that we propose as reasonable. Our result points out that “solutions” to the coalition formation cannot be interpreted as predictions of what would be “resting points” for a game in the way...
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Concerns for relative performance are integrated into a model of contractual renegotiation in bilateral trade. It is … shown that concerns for relative performance do never impede efficient trade. Moreover, conditional on renegotiation to … performance make the occurrence of renegotiation more likely, and may thereby lead to underinvestment even in very optimistic …
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such as informal agreements and ex post renegotiation. We investigate the relevance of these features experimentally. Our … the presence of informal agreements and ex post renegotiation. However, our data also reveal new behavioral features that … renegotiation changes how trading parties evaluate ex post outcomes. Interestingly, the availability of these additional options …
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hypothesis in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an … initial contract has a highly significant and economically important impact on renegotiation behavior that goes beyond the …
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Based on an experimental analysis of a simple monetary economy we argue that a monetary system is more stable than one would expect from individual rationality. We show that positive reciprocity stabilizes the monetary system, provided every participant considers the feedbacks of his choice to...
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