Errors in strategic reasoning

E Eyster - Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Applications and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Copious laboratory and some field evidence suggests that people err in predicting others'
behavior, learning from others' actions, and best responding to their beliefs. Some of these …

Expectation formation in finance and macroeconomics: A review of new experimental evidence

T Bao, C Hommes, J Pei - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the recent development and new findings of the literature on learning-to-
forecast experiments (LtFEs). In general, the stylized finding in the typical LtFEs, namely the …

Endogenous depth of reasoning

L Alaoui, A Penta - The Review of Economic Studies, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a model of strategic thinking in games of initial response. Unlike standard
models of strategic thinking, in this framework the player's “depth of reasoning” is …

Measuring strategic uncertainty in coordination games

F Heinemann, R Nagel… - The review of economic …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
This paper proposes a method to measure strategic uncertainty by eliciting certainty
equivalents analogous to measuring risk attitudes in lotteries. We apply this method by …

On the persistence of strategic sophistication

S Georganas, PJ Healy, RA Weber - Journal of Economic Theory, 2015 - Elsevier
We examine whether the “Level-k” model of strategic behavior generates reliable cross-
game predictions at the individual level. We find no correlation in subjects' estimated levels …

Beliefs and endogenous cognitive levels: An experimental study

M Agranov, E Potamites, A Schotter… - Games and Economic …, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper we use a laboratory setting to manipulate our subjectsʼ beliefs about the
cognitive levels of the players they are playing against. We show that in the context of the 2/3 …

The control of game form recognition in experiments: Understanding dominant strategy failures in a simple two person “guessing” game

E Chou, M McConnell, R Nagel, CR Plott - Experimental Economics, 2009 - Springer
This paper focuses on instructions and procedures as the reasons that subjects fail to
behave according to the predictions of game theory in two-person “guessing game”(beauty …

Levels of reasoning in Keynesian Beauty Contests: a generative framework

F Mauersberger, R Nagel - Handbook of computational economics, 2018 - Elsevier
We introduce a generalization of the Beauty Contest (BC) game as a framework that
incorporates different models from micro-and macroeconomics by formulating their reduced …

Epiphany in the Game of 21

M Dufwenberg, R Sundaram, DJ Butler - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2010 - Elsevier
Does performance in strategic settings depend on whether players realize that an optimal
way to play is feasible? We introduce a zero-sum game of perfect information, simple …

Who knows it is a game? On strategic awareness and cognitive ability

D Fehr, S Huck - Experimental Economics, 2016 - Springer
We examine strategic awareness in experimental games, that is, the question of whether
subjects realize they are playing a game and thus have to form beliefs about others' actions …