Experience weighted attraction in the first price auction and Becker degroot marschak

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1437-1441

  James, Duncan ^a   Reagle, Derrick ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auctions; Experience Weighted Attraction; Learning; Risk Aversion

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

FIRST PRICE AUCTION; HUMAN SUBJECTS; PARAMETER SET; RISK AVERSION; RISK PREFERENCE; STYLIZED FACTS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 85086272820     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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