The Ghost in the Machine: Inferring Machine-Based Strategies from Observed Behavior

Jim Engle-Warnick, William McCausland () and John H. Miller

Cahiers de recherche from Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ

Abstract: We introduce a procedure to infer the repeated-game strategies that generate actions in experimental choice data. We apply the technique to set of experiments where human subjects play a repeated Prisoner's Dilemma. The technique suggests that two types of strategies underly the data.

Keywords: strategy inference; bayesian methods; experimental economics; Prisoner's Dilemma; repeated games (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C11 C15 C72 C73 C92 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2004
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