Cycles and instability in a rock-paper-scissors population game: A continuous time experiment

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 112-136

  Cason, Timothy N ^a   Friedman, Daniel ^b   Hopkins, Ed ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuous time; Cycles; Experiments; Learning; Mixed equilibrium

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENT; GAME THEORY; LEARNING; MODELING;

EID: 84893387948     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdt023     Document Type: Article

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