Personality and cooperation in finitely repeated prisoner's dilemma games

Economics Letters

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 274-277

  Kagel, John ^a   McGee, Peter ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Finitely repeated prisoner dilemma; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902976427     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.05.034     Document Type: Article

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