Abstract
The p-beauty contest is a multi-player number guessing game that is widely used to study strategic behavior. Using new data from a speciallydesigned web experiment, we examine the evidence in favor of a popular class of behavioral economic models called k-step thinking models. After fitting a custom Bayesian spline model to the experimental data, we estimate that the proportion of players who could be using a k-step thinking strategy is approximately 25%.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1459-1483 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | Annals of Applied Statistics |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Behavioral game theory
- Hierarchical modeling
- Partial identification
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- Modeling and Simulation
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty