A choice prediction competition for market entry games: An introduction

Games

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 117-136

  Erev, Ido ^a   Ert, Eyal ^b   Roth, Alvin E ^b,c  

^a Max Wertheimer Minerva Center for Cognitive Studies   (Israel)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Excess entry; Inertia; Recency; Reinforcement learning; Surprise triggers change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874889899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/g1020117     Document Type: Article

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