Cooperation in experimental games of strategic complements and substitutes

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1125-1147

  Potters, Jan ^a   Suetens, Sigrid ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAME THEORY;

EID: 63749122306     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2009.00548.x     Document Type: Article

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