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The Impact of Naïve Advice and Observational Learning in Beauty-contest Games
Kocher, Martin G.; Sutter, Matthias; Wakolbinger, Florian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
outperform uninformed subjects permanently, whereas subjects who observe others’ past behavior before making their decision do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255507
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Hurting hurts more than Helping helps: The Role of the Self-serving Bias
Offerman, Theo - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
This paper investigates an implication of the self-serving bias for reciprocalresponses. It is hypothesized that negative intentionality matters more thanpositive intentionality for reciprocating individuals with a self-servingattributional style. Experimental evidence obtained in the hot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257619
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On Borel Probability Measures and Noncooperative Game Theory
Frenk, J.B.G.; Kassay, G.; Protassov, V. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
In this paper the well-known minimax theorems of Wald, Ville and Von Neumann are generalized under weaker topological conditions on the payoff function f and/or extended to the larger set of the Borel probability measures instead of the set of mixed strategies.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256240
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Computing Alternating Offers and Water Prices in Bilateral River Basin Management
Houba, Harold - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
> This contribution deals with the fundamental critique in Dinar et al. (1992, Theory and Decision 32) on the use of Game …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257198
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The Behavioral Impact of Emotions in a Power to take Game: An Experimental Study
Bosman, Ronald; Winden, Frans A.A.M. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
authority and responder.Both players in each pair have earned an own income in an individual realeffort decision …-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides howmuch income …-69, as: 'Emotional Hazard in a Power-to-Take Experiment'. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255559
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Emotions and Economic Shocks in a First-Price Auction
Bosman, Ronald; Riedl, Arno - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
We investigate experimentally whether emotions affect bidding behavior in a firstprice auction. To induce emotions, we confront subjects after a first auction series with apositive or negative random economic shock. We then explore the relation between emotions andbidding behavior in a second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255774
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Power and the Privilege of Clarity: An Analysis of Bargaining Power and Information Transmission
Ruiz, Adrian de Groot; Offerman, Theo; Onderstal, Sander - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
by an experiment. Finally, we show how partial information transmission can lead to communication failure, and show how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256036
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What can the Big Five Personality Factors contribute to explain Small-Scale Economic Behavior?
Muller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
favor and against this assumption and test in our own experiment, whether and which personality factors are useful in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256055
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An Experimental Study of Credible Deviations and ACDC
Ruiz, Adrian de Groot; Offerman, Theo; Onderstal, Sander - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
organize data well in previous experiments meant to test other concepts. This experiment provides the first systematic test of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256353
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Equilibrium Selection in Cheap Talk Games: ACDC rocks when Other Criteria remain silent
Ruiz, Adrian de Groot; Offerman, Theo; Onderstal, Sander - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
the size of credible deviations. In our experiment, we find support for the relevance of credible deviations. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256700