Author : Luís Santos-Pinto
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Book Synopsis Making Sense of the Experimental Evidence on Endogenous Timing in Duopoly Markets by : Luís Santos-Pinto
Download or read book Making Sense of the Experimental Evidence on Endogenous Timing in Duopoly Markets written by Luís Santos-Pinto and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prediction of asymmetric equilibria with Stackelberg outcomes is clearly the most frequent result in the endogenous timing literature. Several experiments have tried to validate this prediction empirically, but failed to find support for it. By contrast, the experiments find that simultaneous-move outcomes are modal and that behavior in endogenous timing games is quite heterogeneous. This paper generalizes Saloner's (1987) and Hamilton and Slutsky's (1990) endogenous timing games by assuming that players are averse to inequality in payoffs. We explore the theoretical implications of inequity aversion and compare them to the empirical evidence. We find that this explanation is able to organize most of the experimental evidence on endogenous timing games. However, inequity aversion is not able to explain delay in Hamilton and Slutsky's endogenous timing games.