American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Models of Thinking, Learning, and Teaching in Games
American Economic Review
vol. 93,
no. 2, May 2003
(pp. 192–195)
Abstract
Noncooperative game theory combines strategic thinking, best-response, and mutual consistency of beliefs and choices (equilibrium). Hundreds of experiments show that in actual behavior these three forces are limited, even when subjects are highly motivated and analytically skilled (Camerer, 2003). The challenge is to create models that are as general, precise, and parsimonious as equilibrium, but which also use cognitive details to explain experimental evidence more accurately and to predict new regularities. This paper describes three exemplar models of behavior in one-shot games (thinking), learning over time, and how repeated "partner" matching affects behavior (teaching) (see Camerer et al., 2002b).Citation
Camerer, Colin, Teck Ho, and Kuan Chong. 2003. "Models of Thinking, Learning, and Teaching in Games ." American Economic Review, 93 (2): 192–195. DOI: 10.1257/000282803321947038JEL Classification
- C72 Noncooperative Games
- D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief