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Beliefs, Learning, and Personality in the Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma

Gill, David; Rosokha, Yaroslav - 2022

We aim to understand the role and evolution of beliefs in the indefinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma (IRPD). To do so, we elicit beliefs about the supergame strategies chosen by others. We find that heterogeneity in beliefs and changes in beliefs with experience are central to understanding...

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Doing Your Best When Stakes Are High? Theory and Experimental Evidence

Houy, Nicolas; Nicolaï, Jean-Philippe; Villeval, Marie … - 2016

experiment that reproduces the main features of a tennis match. We show that our importance criterion is able to predict the …

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Gambling and the use of credit: an individual and household level analysis

Brown, Sarah; Dickerson, Andy; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - 2010

We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …

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Gender Differences in Cooperation: Experimental Evidence on High School Students

Molina, José Alberto; Giménez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; … - 2013

Charles Darwin (1874) stated that women are less selfish but men are more competitive. Very recent papers (Eckel & Grossman, 1998, 2001 or Andreoni and Vesterlund 2001, among others) have shown the relevance of gender in altruism in both ultimatum and dictator games. In this paper we analyze the...

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Courtesy and idleness: gender differences in team work and team competition

Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kübler, Dorothea - 2005

Does gender play a role in the context of team work? Our results based on a real-effort experiment suggest that …

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Tipping and residential segregation: a unified schelling model

Zhang, Junfu - 2009

This paper presents a Schelling-type checkerboard model of residential segregation formulated as a spatial game. It shows that although every agent prefers to live in a mixed-race neighborhood, complete segregation is observed almost all of the time. A concept of tipping is rigorously defined,...

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It's Payback Time: New Insights on Cooperation in the Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma

Bigoni, Maria; Casari, Marco; Salvanti, Andrea; … - 2022

In an experiment on the repeated prisoner's dilemma where intended actions are implemented with noise, Fudenberg et al …

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Gender Differences in Cooperation: Experimental Evidence on High School Students

Molina, José Alberto; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Charles Darwin (1874) stated that "women are less selfish but men are more competitive". Very recent papers (Eckel & Grossman, 1998, 2001 or Andreoni and Vesterlund 2001, among others) have shown the relevance of gender in altruism in both ultimatum and dictator games. In this paper we analyze...

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Negotiating Cooperation under Uncertainty: Communication in Noisy, Indefinitely Repeated Interactions

Dvorak, Fabian; Fehrler, Sebastian - 2018

Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring...

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Mutual Insurance in the Village and Beyond

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2024

When formal insurance is unavailable, mutual insurance among households can serve as an alternative. This paper analyzes a game between economic agents facing uncertainty and maximizing discounted utility without enforceable contracts or access to capital markets. While autarky is always a...

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