Rage against the machines: How subjects play against learning algorithms

Economic Theory

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 407-430

  Duersch, Peter ^a   Kolb, Albert ^a   Oechssler, Jörg ^a   Schipper, Burkhard C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cournot duopoly; Experiments; Fictitious play; Imitation; Internet; Learning; Reinforcement; Strategic teaching; Trial error

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952424199     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-009-0446-0     Document Type: Article

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