Satisficing in sales competition: experimental evidence

In a duopoly market, aspiration levels express how much sellers want to earn given their expectations about the other?s behavior. We augment the sellers? decision task by eliciting their profit aspiration. In a first experimental phase, whenever satisficing is not possible, sales choices, point beliefs, or aspiration levels have to be adapted. This allows us to investigate which of these three aspects individuals revise more often. In a second phase, testing the absorption of satisficing, participants are free to select non-satisficing sales profiles. The results reveal that most participants are satisficers who tend to adjust aspiration levels if they cannot be satisfied.

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Year of publication:	2009-05
Authors:	Berninghaus, Siegfried ; Werner G?th ; Levati, M. Vittoria ; Qiu, Jianying
Institutions:	Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik
Subject:	Satisficing behavior \| Duopoly \| Profit aspiration \| Theory absorption

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	4 pages long
Classification:	C92 - Laboratory; Group Behavior ; C72 - Noncooperative Games ; D43 - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics