Cooperative strategies in anonymous economies: An experiment

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 570-586

  Camera, Gabriele ^a   Casari, Marco ^b   Bigoni, Maria ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Equilibrium selection; Finite automata; Folk Theorem; Random matching; Repeated games; Social dilemma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860630506     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2012.02.009     Document Type: Article

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