The effect of payoff feedback and information pooling on reasoning errors: Evidence from experimental markets

Management Science

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1829-1843

  Budescu, David V ^a   Maciejovsky, Boris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Combinatorial auctions; Deductive reasoning; Double auctions; Experimental markets; Reasoning errors; Wason selection task

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL AUCTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL MARKETS; REASONING ERRORS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; INFORMATION THEORY;

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

EID: 29144482522     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1050.0426     Document Type: Article

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