Infinity in the lab. How do people play repeated games?

Theory and Decision

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 205-219

  Bruttel, Lisa ^a   Kamecke, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Continuation rule; Experiment; Infinite horizon; Prisoner's dilemma

Indexed keywords

CONTINUATION RULE; FINITE HORIZONS; INFINITE HORIZONS; PRISONER'S DILEMMA; REPEATED GAMES;

EXPERIMENTS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 84856734256     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-011-9247-6     Document Type: Article

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