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On the internet you can be anyone : an experiment on strategic avatar choice in online marketplaces

Abraham, Diya; Greiner, Ben; Stephanides, Marianne - 2021

be represented by profile pictures or avatars. In a laboratory experiment, we investigate whether the presence of seller …

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Ignorance Is Bliss : A Game of Regret

Cerrone, Claudia - 2019

Existing models of regret aversion assume that individuals can make an ex-post comparison between their choice and a foregone alternative. Yet in many situations such a comparison can be made only if someone else chose the alternative option. We develop a model where regret-averse agents must...

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Pre-Play Communication and Credibility : A Test of Aumann's Conjecture

Charness, Gary - 1998

The effectiveness of pre-play communication in achieving efficient outcomes has long been a subject of controversy. In some environments, cheap talk may help to achieve coordination. However, Aumann conjectures that, in a variant of the Stag Hunt game, a signal for efficient play is not...

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Choice of Partners in Multiple Two-Person Prisoner's Dilemma Games : An Experimental Study

Hauk, Esther; Nagel, Rosemarie - 2000

We examine the effect of unilateral and mutual partner selection in the context of prisoner's dilemmas experimentally. Subjects play simultaneously several finitely repeated two-person prisoner's dilemma games. We find that unilateral choice is the best system. It leads to low defection and...

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Sequential Contests with Incomplete Information : Theory and Experimental Evidence

Brookins, Philip; Matros, Alexander; Tzachrista, Foteini - 2022

In this paper, we investigate behavior in two-player sequential-move contests with complete and incomplete information about the value of the prize, theoretically and experimentally. First, we describe a Bayesian equilibrium of a sequential contest in which both players have private prize...

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Extensive-form level-k thinking

Schipper, Burkhard; Zhou, Hang - 2022

Level-k thinking and Cognitive Hierarchy have been widely applied as a normalform solution concept in behavioral and experimental game theory. We consider the extension of level-k thinking to extensive-form games. Player's may learn about levels of opponents' thinking during the play of the game...

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Competition modulates buyers' reaction to sellers' cheap talk

Onderstal, Sander; Shalvi, Shaul; Soraperra, Ivan - 2023

-binding price requests. Using a laboratory experiment, we examine how competition moderates the way such cheap-talk communication …

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Real-effort tasks in experiments : the task choice matters

Waloszek, Christian - 2021

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The dark side of personality : anti-sociality increases strategic game play

Engelmann, Jan; Schmid, Basil; Chumbley, Justin; Fehr, Ernst - 2018

personality on investor trust and trustee reciprocity in the presence relative to the absence of the investor's option to punish … levels of investor trust and trustee reciprocity, while there is a significant increase in both behaviors when punishment was … counterparts. The reliability of the strategic effects of anti-social personality during trust, reciprocity and punishment strongly …

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The Effect of Anchors and Social Information on Behaviour

O'Garra, Tanya - 2019

We use a ‘multi-player dictator game' (MDG) with ‘social information' about the contribution decision about a previous dictator to examine whether average contributions as well as the behavioural strategy adopted are affected by the first amount presented (the ‘anchor') using a sequential...

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