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the uncertainty of subjects regarding others' rationality. We do so by comparing the price forecasts submitted by subjects … hypothesis that uncertainty about others' rationality plays a major role in causing substantial deviation of forecast prices from …
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players’ perceptions of their opponents’ skill or level of rationality. We first show theoretically that it is the case by … modelling a two-stage game of capacity investment and pricing with bounded rational players. We then design an experiment in … which we use the level of experience as a proxy for the level of rationality and match subjects with different levels of …
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We report an experimental test of the four touchstones of rationality in choice under risk – utility maximization …, stochastic dominance, expected-utility maximization and small-stakes risk neutrality – with students from one of the best … political affairs. We find very small or no significant differences between the two samples in the degree of rationality …
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indifference over a certain interval. The results are symptoms of some risk aversion. In an English auction escalation leads to …
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the uncertainty of subjects regarding others’ rationality. We do so by comparing the price forecasts submitted by subjects … hypothesis that uncertainty about others’ rationality plays a major role in causing substantial deviation of forecast prices from …
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This paper is concerned with the realism of mechanisms that implement social choice functions in the traditional sense. Will the agents actually play the equilibrium assumed by the analysis? As an example, we study the dynamic implementation of the first-best solution for the so-called King...
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are solved, all based on the model of individual rationality. Invariably, these institutional solutions involve creating … complement, though not displace, that of individual rationality. …
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This paper explores some of the consequences of adopting a modern subjective view of probability for game theory. The consequences are substantial. The subjective view of probability clarifies the important distinction between normative and positive theorizing about behavior in games, a...
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Management Science recently printed an exchange of views between Kadane and Larkey (Kadane, J. B., P. D. Larkey. 1982. Subjective probability and the theory of games. Management Sci. 28 113--120; Kadane, J. B., P. D. Larkey. 1982. Reply to Professor Harsanyi. Management Sci. 28 124.) and Harsanyi...
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