The control of game form recognition in experiments: Understanding dominant strategy failures in a simple two person "guessing" game

Experimental Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159-179

  Chou, Eileen ^a   McConnell, Margaret ^b   Nagel, Rosemarie ^c   Plott, Charles R ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Experiments; Games; Instructions; Methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349105327     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-008-9206-4     Document Type: Article

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