Cooperation in Experimental Games of Strategic Complements and Substitutes

作者: JAN POTTERS , SIGRID SUETENS

DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-937X.2009.00548.X

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摘要: We conduct a laboratory experiment aimed at examining whether strategic substitutability and complementarity have an impact on the tendency to cooperate in finitely repeated two player games with Pareto-inefficient Nash equilibrium. find that there is significantly more cooperation when actions exhibit complementarities than case of substitutes. The difference some extent driven by speed which pairs reach stable full cooperation, but mainly differences choices do not succeed reaching cooperation.

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