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Evidence on learning in coordination games

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

John B. Van Huyck,
Raymond C. Battalio and
Frederick W. Rankin
John B. Van Huyck*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Texas A&M University, 4228 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Raymond C. Battalio*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Texas A&M University, 4228 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Frederick W. Rankin
Affiliation:
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-120, USA
*
e-mail: john.vanhuyck@tamu.edu
e-mail: bill.rankin@business.colostate.edu
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Abstract

This paper reports an experiment designed to detect the influence of strategic uncertainty on behavior in order statistic coordination games, which arise when a player's best response is an order statistic of the cohort's action combination. Unlike previous experiments using order statistic coordination games, the new experiment holds the payoff function constant and only changes cohort size and order statistic.

Keywords

CoordinationEquilibrium selectionLearningStrategic uncertaintyAdaptive behavior

JEL classification

C92: Laboratory, Group BehaviorC72: Noncooperative Games

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Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Economics , Volume 10 , Issue 3: Special issue of Experimental Economics in honor of Raymond C. Battalio: Coordination Games , September 2007, pp. 205 - 220
Copyright
Copyright © 2007 Economic Science Association

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Footnotes

R.C. Battalio deceased.

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