Are the treasures of game theory ambiguous?

Economic Theory

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 313-339

  Eichberger, Jürgen ^a   Kelsey, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Coordination games; Experiments; Matching pennies; Optimism; Traveller's dilemma

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053282661     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-011-0636-4     Document Type: Article

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