Do institutions promote rationality? An experimental study of the three-door anomaly

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 337-350

  Slembeck, Tilman ^a,b   Tyran, Jean Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bayes' Law; Communication; Competition; Group decision making; Individual decision making; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 2642583865     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2003.03.002     Document Type: Article

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