Title
Batch queues with choice of arrivals: Equilibrium analysis and experimental study
Abstract
We study the decisions agents make in two queueing games with endogenously determined arrivals and batch service. In both games, agents are asked to independently decide when to join a queue, or they may simply choose not to join it at all. The symmetric mixed-strategy equilibrium of two games in discrete time where balking is prohibited and where it is allowed are tested experimentally in a study that varies the game type (balking vs. no balking) and information structure (private vs. public information). With repeated iterations of the stage game, all four experimental conditions result in aggregate, but not individual, behavior approaching mixed-strategy equilibrium play. Individual behavior can be accounted for by relatively simple heuristics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.geb.2006.08.008
Games and Economic Behavior
Keywords
DocType
Volume
C90,Z13
Journal
59
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0899-8256
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.78
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
William E. Stein17612.55
Amnon Rapoport27724.90
Darryl A. Seale3187.91
Hongtao Zhang430.78
Rami Zwick524858.52