Title
Predicting How People Play Games: A Simple Dynamic Model of Choice
Abstract
We use the simple dynamic model developed in Sarin and Vahid (1999, Games and Economic Behavior, 28, 294–309) to explain the experiments reported in Erev and Roth (1998, American Economic Review, 88, 848–881). In an earlier paper (Sarin and Vahid (1998, mimeo, Texas A&M University and Monash University)) we showed that the model predicted behavior in repeated coordination games remarkably well, and better than equilibrium theory or reinforcement learning models. In this paper we show that the same one-parameter model can also explain behavior in games with a unique mixed strategy Nash equilibrium better than alternative models. Hence, we obtain further support for the simple dynamic model. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: C7, D8.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1006/game.1999.0783
Games and Economic Behavior
Keywords
DocType
Volume
reinforcement learning,nash equilibrium,coordination game,game theory,equilibrium theory,probability,mixed strategy
Journal
34
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0899-8256
19
PageRank 
References 
Authors
7.38
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rajiv Sarin13012.36
Farshid Vahid2197.38