Social learning in coordination games: Does status matter?

Experimental Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 317-329

  Eckel, Catherine C ^a   Wilson, Rick K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination game; Payoff dominance; Risk dominance; Status

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848890268     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-007-9185-x     Document Type: Article

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