Journal article
Learning and communication in sender-receiver games: an econometric investigation
Journal of applied econometrics (Chichester, England), Vol.17(3), pp.225-247
05/2002
DOI: 10.1002/jae.647
Abstract
This paper compares stimulus response (SR) and belief-based learning (BBL) using data from experiments with sender–receiver games. The environment, extensive form games played in a population setting, is novel in the empirical literature on learning in games. Both the SR and BBL models fit the data reasonably well in games where the preferences of senders and receivers are perfectly aligned and where the population history of the senders is known. The test results accept SR and reject BBL in games without population history and in all but one of the games where senders and receivers have different preferences over equilibria. Estimation is challenging since the likelihood function is not globally concave and the data become uninformative about learning once equilibrium is achieved.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Learning and communication in sender-receiver games: an econometric investigation
- Creators
- Andreas Blume - University of PittsburghDouglas V. DeJong - University of IowaGeorge R. Neumann - University of IowaN. E. Savin - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of applied econometrics (Chichester, England), Vol.17(3), pp.225-247
- DOI
- 10.1002/jae.647
- ISSN
- 0883-7252
- eISSN
- 1099-1255
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
- Number of pages
- 23
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2002
- Academic Unit
- Economics; Accounting
- Record Identifier
- 9984962549302771
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