This book covers a wide spectrum of issues in behavioural game theory (BGT), ranging from players' heterogeneity, social preferences and reciprocity, to learning, information and punishment in public good games. The book opens up the interdisciplinary aspects of BGT, and presents models which are tested through experimental methods.
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Introduction by Alessandro Innocenti and Patrizia Sbriglia 1
Pt. I Preferences and Decision Making
1 Unpacking Experimental Discount Rates: Impatience, Uncertainty, and Credit Constraints by Marco Casari 11
2 Introducing Social Norms in Game Theory by Raul Lopez-Perez 26
3 Risk Aversion, Demographics and Unobserved Heterogeneity: Evidence from the Italian TV Show Affari Tuoi by Fabrizio Botti and Anna Conte and Daniela Di Cagno and Carlo D'Ippoliti 47
Pt. II Fairness and Reciprocity
4 Inequality Aversion and Stochastic Decision Making: Experimental Evidence from Zimbabwean Villages after Land Reform by Stefan Kohler 65
5 Norm Compliance: The Contribution of Behavioural Economics Models by Marco Faillo and Lorenzo Sacconi 101
6 Gender Differences in Altruism: An Experimental Study by Alessandro Innocenti and Maria Grazia Pazienza 134
Pt. III Equilibrium Selection and Learning
7 On the Absorbability of the Guessing Game Theory - A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis by Andrea Morone and Serena Sandri and Tobias Uske 161
8 Best Responding to What? A Behavioural Approach to One-Shot Play in 2 x 2 Games by Andrea Gallice 184
9 A Survey of Psychological Games: Theoretical Findings and Experimental Evidence by Giuseppe Attanasi and Rosemarie Nagel 204
Pt. IV Coordination and Cooperation
10 Inequality or Strategic Uncertainty? An Experimental Study on Incentives and Hierarchy by Dunia Lopez-Pintado and Giovanni Ponti and Eyal Winter 235
11 Alternating Cooperation Strategies in a Route Choice Game: Theory, Experiments and Effects of a Learning Scenario by Hans-Ulrich Stark and Dirk Helbing and Martin Schonhof and Janusz A. Holyst 256
12 Cooperation as Self-Interested Reciprocity in the Centipede by Francesco Farina and Patrizia Sbriglia
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