Joining a queue or staying out: Effects of information structure and service time on arrival and staying out decisions

Experimental Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 117-144

  Seale, Darryl A ^a   Parco, James E ^b   Stein, William E ^c   Rapoport, Amnon ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Batch queueing; Coordination; Equilibrium solution; Experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044455394     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-005-0872-1     Document Type: Article

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