Structural models of nonequilibrium strategic thinking: Theory, evidence, and applications

VP Crawford, MA Costa-Gomes, N Iriberri - Journal of Economic …, 2013 - aeaweb.org
Most applications of game theory assume equilibrium, justified by presuming either that
learning will have converged to one, or that equilibrium approximates people's strategic …

Monetary policy, bounded rationality, and incomplete markets

E Farhi, I Werning - American Economic Review, 2019 - aeaweb.org
This paper extends the benchmark New-Keynesian model by introducing two frictions:(i)
agent heterogeneity with incomplete markets, uninsurable idiosyncratic risk, and …

Errors in strategic reasoning

E Eyster - Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Applications and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Copious laboratory and some field evidence suggests that people err in predicting others'
behavior, learning from others' actions, and best responding to their beliefs. Some of these …

The 11–20 Money Request Game: A Level-k Reasoning Study

A Arad, A Rubinstein - American Economic Review, 2012 - aeaweb.org
We study experimentally a new two-player game: each player requests an amount between
11 and 20 shekels. He receives the requested amount and if he requests exactly one shekel …

Beyond equilibrium: Predicting human behavior in normal-form games

J Wright, K Leyton-Brown - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2010 - ojs.aaai.org
It is standard in multiagent settings to assume that agents will adopt Nash equilibrium
strategies. However, studies in experimental economics demonstrate that Nash equilibrium …

The paradox of social interaction: Shared intentionality, we-reasoning, and virtual bargaining.

N Chater, H Zeitoun, T Melkonyan - Psychological Review, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Social interaction is both ubiquitous and central to understanding human behavior. Such
interactions depend, we argue, on shared intentionality: the parties must form a common …

Varieties of agents in agent-based computational economics: A historical and an interdisciplinary perspective

SH Chen - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, we trace four origins of agent-based computational economics (ACE), namely,
the markets origin, the cellular-automata origin, the tournaments origin, and the experiments …

Cognitive ability and strategic sophistication

J Carpenter, M Graham, J Wolf - Games and Economic Behavior, 2013 - Elsevier
In three experiments we examine the extent to which strategic sophistication (ie, inductive
reasoning, iterative dominance and level-k thinking) is determined by broader cognitive …

A typology of players: Between instinctive and contemplative

A Rubinstein - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
A new typology of players is proposed based on the classification of actions as either
instinctive or contemplative. A person's type is the probability of him choosing a …

The demand for bad policy when voters underappreciate equilibrium effects

E Dal Bó, P Dal Bó, E Eyster - The Review of Economic Studies, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Most of the political economy literature blames inefficient policies on institutions or
politicians' motives to supply bad policy, but voters may themselves be partially responsible …