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Level-k reasoning in a generalized beauty contest
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- Issue Date
- 2014-07
- Publisher
- ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
- Citation
- GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR, Vol.86, pp.308-329
- Keywords
- GUESSING GAMES ; SOCIAL VALUE ; BEHAVIOR ; INFORMATION ; COGNITION ; MODELS
- Abstract
- We study how the predictive power of level-k models changes as we perturb the classical beauty contest setting along two dimensions: the strength of the coordination motive and the information symmetry. We use a variation of the Morris and Shin (2002) model as the unified framework for our study, and find that the predictive power of level-k models varies considerably along these two dimensions. Level-k models are successful in predicting subject behavior in settings with symmetric information and a strong coordination motive. Their predictive power weakens significantly when either private information is introduced or the importance of the coordination motive is decreased. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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- 0899-8256
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