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Social learning and coordination conventions in inter-generational games : an experimental study

Schotter, Andrew; Sopher, Barry - 2000 - Revised: November 22, 2001

This is a paper on the creation and evolution of conventions of behavior in ”inter-generational games”. In these games a sequence of non-overlapping ”generations” of players play a stage game for a finite number of periods and are then replaced by other agents who continue the game in...

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Advice and behavior in intergenerational : ultimatum games ; an experimental approach

Schotter, Andrew; Sopher, Barry - 2000 - Revision September 28, 2001

In the real world, when people play games, they often receive advice from those that have played it before them. Such advice can facilitate the creation of a convention of behavior. This paper studies the impact of advice on the behavior subjects who engage in a non-overlapping generational...

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Framing matters in gender-paired dictator games

Kettner, Sara Elisa; Ceccato, Smarandita - 2014

We show that social context matters in gender-paired dictator decisions. Our experiment investigates the influence of …

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Does payoff equity facilitate coordination? : a test of Schelling's conjecture

López-Pérez, Raúl; Pintér, Ágnes; Kiss, Hubert J. - 2013

Starting from Schelling (1960), several game theorists have conjectured that payoff equity might facilitate coordination in normal-form games with multiple equilibria - the more equitable equilibrium might be selected either because fairness makes it focal or because many individuals dislike...

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Workers' participation in wage setting and opportnistic behaviour : evidence from a gift-exchange experiment

Franke, Jörg; Gurtoviy, Ruslan; Mertins, Vanessa - 2014

Our study analyzes the consequences of workers' participation in the wage setting process on effort exertion. The experimental design is based on a modified giftexchange game where the degree of workers' involvement in the wage setting process is systematically varied among the workers. The...

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On the persistence of strategic sophistication

Georganas, Sotiris; Healy, Paul J.; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014

We examine whether the "Level-k" model of strategic behavior generates reliable cross-game predictions within an individual. We find no correlation in subjects' estimated levels of reasoning across two families of games. Furthermore, estimating a higher level for Ann than Bob in one family of...

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Bracelets of pride and guilt? : an experimental test of self-signaling in charitable giving

Weele, Joël J. van der; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2014

experiment subjects divide 20 euros between themselves and a charity. Some randomly determined participants are induced to wear a … bracelet for the two weeks following their donation decision. This bracelet serves as a private reminder of the experiment … remember the experiment in the following two weeks. …

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Cooperating, fast and slow : testing the social heuristics hypothesis

Strømland, Eirik; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - 2016

, we conduct a novel time-pressure experiment to shed light on the cognitive underpinnings of cooperation. Although we find …

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Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants : an experimental study of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay auctions

Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Szech, Nora - 2016

in an experiment. Our data show that indeed, strengthening weaker contestants through tie-breaks and bid …

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Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants : an experimental study of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay auctions

Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Szech, Nora - 2016

in an experiment. Our data show that indeed, strengthening weaker contestants through tie-breaks and bid …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489403