Workshop:
Experimental Game Theory

Organized by Alvin Roth


July 6 to July 9, 1993

Stony Brook, New York

PROGRAM



  TUESDAY, JULY 6

9:00-10:30

Ultimatum Bargaining

W. Güth: Information, Strategic Behavior, and Fairness in Ultimatum Bargaining

G. Bolton (with E. Katok and R. Zwick): Dictator Game Giving: Fairness versus Random Acts of Kindness

11:00-12:30

Optimal Design of Experiments

T. Palfrey (with M. El-Gamal): Optimal Design of an Experiment: A Bayesian Approach (or, "Learning to Learn abour Learning")

D. Holt: Detecting Learning in Experimental Games

2:00-3:30

Dilemmas

G. Bornstein: Cooperation in Intergroup and Single-Group Social Dilemmas

C. Keser and R. Gardner: Strategic Behavior of Experienced Subjects in a Common Pool Resource Game


  WEDNESDAY, JULY 7

9:00-10:30

Learning and Adaptation

J. Van Huyck (with R. Battalio, S. Mathur, A. Ortmann, and P. Van Huyck): On the Origin of Convention: Evidence from Symmetric Bargaining Games

B. Broseta: Learning in Coordination Games

11:00-12:30 C. Holt (with J. Brandts): Adjustment Patterns and Equilibrium Selection in Experimental Signaling

D. Fudenberg: Self-Confirming Equilibria in Experimental Games

2:15-4:00

Learning and Adaptation, continued

I. Erev and A. Roth: Is There Intelligent Life after the First Period of Repeated Play?: Simple Adaptive Models in the Intermediate Term

R. Nagel: Experimental Results on Interactive Competitive Guessing


  THURSDAY, JULY 8

9:00-12:00

Mixed Strategy Equilibria

J. Ochs: 2 x 2 Games with Unique Mixed-Strategy Equilibria

B. Vogt (with W. Albers): Selection of Mixed Strategies in 2 x 2 Bimatrix Games

B. Sopher: Learning and Decision Costs in Constant Sum Games

2:15-4:45

Modeling Issues

A. Rapoport: Order of Play in Strategically Equivalent Games in Extensive Form

V. Prasnikar: Binary Lottery Payoffs: Do They Control Risk Aversion?

D. Stahl (with P. Wilson): Players' Models of Other Players


  FRIDAY, JULY 9

9:00-12:00

Market Processes

J. Kagel (with D. Cooper and S. Garvin): Adaptive Learning in an Entry Limit Pricing Signalling Game

J. Potters (with F. van Winden): An Experimental Study of Lobbying

B. Forsythe: Adverse Selection and Voluntary Disclosure in Financial Markets

2:00-3:00 R. Selten:
Learning Guided by Qualitative Reasoning