Experience and insight in the Race game

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 144-155

  Gneezy, Uri ^a   Rustichini, Aldo ^b   Vostroknutov, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Backward induction; Behavioral game theory; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954215090     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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