Aspiration adaptation in the ultimatum minigame

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 86-106

  Napel, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aspiration level; Bargaining; Bounded rationality; Learning; Satisficing; Stochastic evolutionary games; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037612081     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-8256(03)00004-6     Document Type: Article

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