Card games and economic behavior

Leonardo Becchetti, Maurizio Fiaschetti and Giancarlo Marini

Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, vol. 88, issue C, 112-129

Abstract: We wonder whether different game experiences are associated with significant differences in experimental behavior and, more specifically, whether expert bridge players, due to their habit of playing with partners and seldom for money, are more likely to adopt cooperative behavior than expert poker players. Evidence from trust games shows that bridge players make more polarized choices and choose the maximum trustor contribution significantly more often. Our findings are similar across incentivized and non-incentivized experiments and thereby support the hypothesis that behavior in simulated experiments resembles that in experiments with monetary payoffs.

Keywords: Trust games; Financial crisis; Poker; Bridge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 C72 C91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2014.08.003

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