Make Humans Randomize

Lisa Bruttel and Tim Friehe

No 2013-20, Working Paper Series of the Department of Economics, University of Konstanz from Department of Economics, University of Konstanz

Abstract: This paper presents results from an experiment studying a two-person 4x4 pure coordination game. We seek to identify a labeling of actions that induces subjects to select all options with the same probability. Such a display of actions must be free from salient properties that might be used by participants to coordinate. Testing 23 different sets of labels, we identify two sets that produce a distribution of subjects’ choices which approximate the uniform distribution quite well. Our design can be used in studies intending to compare the behavior of subjects who play against a random mechanism with that of participants who play against human counterparts.

Keywords: coordination game; experiment; mixed strategy; level k (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C71 C92 D83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2013-07-19
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-exp, nep-gth and nep-hpe
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