Strategy choice in the infinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma

P Dal Bó, GR Fréchette - American Economic Review, 2019 - aeaweb.org
We use a novel experimental design to reliably elicit subjects' strategies in an infinitely
repeated prisoner's dilemma experiment with perfect monitoring. We find that three simple …

Testing models of strategic uncertainty: equilibrium selection in repeated games

M Boczoń, E Vespa, T Weidman… - Journal of the European …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In repeated games, where both collusive and noncollusive outcomes can be supported as
equilibria, it is crucial to understand the likelihood of selection for each type of equilibrium …

[PDF][PDF] An empirical model of price transparency and markups in health care

ZY Brown - Manuscript, 2017 - websites.umich.edu
It is usually difficult for patients to compare out-of-pocket prices for medical services. What
are the implications for prices and welfare? In order to understand the effects of price …

An experimental investigation of cooperation in the dynamic common pool game

E Vespa - International Economic Review, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This article studies experimentally to what extent subjects can cooperate in a dynamic
common pool game, where the stage game changes endogenously. Although efficiency can …

Exploring the effects of computational costs in extensive games via modeling and simulation

C Liu, E Zhu, Q Zhang, X Wei - International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Game theory has become a standard tool for depicting and demonstrating various game‐
like phenomena by providing appropriate mathematical models and for analyzing and …

Economics and measurement: New measures to model decision making

I Almås, O Attanasio, P Jervis - 2023 - nber.org
Most empirical work in economics has considered only a narrow set of measures as
meaningful and useful to characterize individual behavior, a restriction justified by the …

Experimentally validating welfare evaluation of school vouchers: Part i

P Arcidiacono, K Muralidharan, E Shim, JD Singleton - 2021 - nber.org
In this paper, we use a unique two-stage experiment that randomized access to school
vouchers across both markets and students in rural India to estimate the revealed …

Experimenting with the transition rule in dynamic games

E Vespa, AJ Wilson - Quantitative Economics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In dynamic environments where the strategic setting evolves across time, the specific rule
governing the transitions can substantially alter the incentives agents face. This is …

Sober optimism and the formation of international environmental agreements

L Karp, H Sakamoto - Journal of Economic Theory, 2021 - Elsevier
We analyze a dynamic model of international environmental agreements where countries
cannot make long-term commitments or use sanctions or rewards to induce cooperation …

Persistence of power: Repeated multilateral bargaining with endogenous agenda setting authority

M Agranov, C Cotton, C Tergiman - Journal of Public Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
We extend a simple repeated, multilateral bargaining model to allow successful agenda
setters to hold on to power as long as they maintain the support of a majority of other …