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Experimental Investigation of a Cyclic Duopoly Game

The notion of a cyclic game has been introduced by Selten and Wooders (2001). They illustrate the concept by the analysis of a cyclic duopoly game. The experiments reported concern this game. The game was played by eleven matching groups of six players each. The observed choice fre- quencies were compared with the predictions of Nash equilibrium, impulse balance equilibrium (Selten, Abbink and Cox (2005), Selten and Chmura (2007)) and two-sample equilbrium (Osborne and Rubinstein(1998)). Pair- wise comparisons by the Wilcoxon Signed-rank test show that impulse balance equilibrium as well as two-sample equilibrium have a significantly better predictive success than Nash equilibrium. The difference between impulse balance equilibrium and two-sample equilibrium is not significant.In each matching group three players acted only in uneven periods and the other three only in even periods. This game has two pure strategy equi- libria in which both types of players behave differently. The data exhibit a weak but significant tendency in the direction of coordination at a pure strategy equilibrium.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bonn Econ Discussion Papers ; No. 9/2007

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: General
Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games; Repeated Games
Thema
cyclic game duopoly experiment
impulse balance equilibrium
two-sample equilibrium
Dynamisches Spiel
Duopol
Experiment
Gleichgewicht
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Goerg, Sebastian J.
Selten, Reinhard
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2007

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  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Goerg, Sebastian J.
  • Selten, Reinhard
  • University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE)

Entstanden

  • 2007

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