Analyzing ultimatum bargaining: A bayesian approach to the comparison of two potency curves under shape constraints

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 335-344

  Fong, Duncan K H ^a   Bolton, Gary E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet prior; Gibbs sampling; Importance resampling; Perfect equilibrium; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031512012     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.1997.10524711     Document Type: Article

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