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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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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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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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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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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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In the presence of a time-inconsistency problem with optimal agency contracts, we show that competitive markets implement allocations that Pareto dominate those achieved by a benevolent planner, they induce strictly more effort, and they sometimes make the commitment problem disappear entirely....
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