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Auctioning the Right to Play Ultimatum Games and the Impact on Equilibrium Selection

id:2215 时间:20131205 status:published 点击数:
杂志Games   
作者Jason Shachat, J. Todd Swarthout
正文We auction scarce rights to play the Proposer and Responder positions in ultimatum games. As a control treatment, we randomly allocate these rights and charge exogenous participation fees. These participation fee sequences match the auction price sequence from a session of the original treatment. With endogenous selection via auctions, we find that play converges to a session-specific Nash equilibrium, and auction prices emerge supporting this equilibrium by the principle of forward induction. With random assignment, we find play also converges to a session-specific Nash equilibrium as predicted by the principle of loss avoidance. While Nash equilibria with low offers are observed, the subgame perfect Nash equilibrium never is.
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关键词:ultimatum bargaining; auction; forward induction; loss avoidance
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