Advances In Understanding Strategic Behaviour: Game Theory, Experiments And Bounded Rationality

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X paperback This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Advances in understanding strategic behaviour:game theory, experiments, and bounded rationality/edited by Steffen Huck. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1
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X (pbk.) 1. Game theory. 2. Decision making. 3. Econometric models. I. Güth, Werner, 1944
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HB144.A38 2004 519.3“dc22 2004056082 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham and Eastbourne Contents List of Figures vii List of Tables ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xiv List of Contributors xv 1 Boundedly Rational Qualitative Reasoning on Comparative Statics Reinhard Selten 1 2 Complexity Constraints and Adaptive Learning: An Example Tilman Börgers and Antonio J. Morales 3 Vengefulness Evolves in Small Groups Daniel Friedman and Nirvikar Singh 28 4 Network Formation and Co-ordination Games Siegfried K. Berninghaus and Bodo Vogt 55 5 Specific Skills, Imperfect Information and Job Rationing Helmut Bester 73 6 Testing Game Theory Jörgen W. Weibull 85 7 A Dialogue Concerning the Nature of Rationality Hartmut Kliemt and Axel Ockenfels 105 8 Behavioural Game Theory: Thinking, Learning and Teaching Colin F. Camerer, Teck-Hua Ho and Juin Kuan Chong 120 9 Double Auction Markets with Stochastic Supply and Demand Schedules: Call Markets and Continuous Auction Trading Mechanisms John H. Kagel v 9 181 vi Contents 10 11 12 Multistage Sealed-bid k-Double-Auctions: An Experimental Study o