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Teaching Nash Equilibrium and Dominance: A Classroom Experiment on the Beauty Contest

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dc.creator Alba Fernández, Virtudes
dc.creator Brañas-Garza, Pablo
dc.creator Jiménez Jiménez, Francisca
dc.creator Rodero, Javier
dc.date 2007-11-14T08:15:42Z
dc.date 2007-11-14T08:15:42Z
dc.date 2004-09-09
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T00:58:30Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T00:58:30Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/2097
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/2097
dc.description The aim of this investigation is to show how the use of classroom experiments may be a good pedagogical tool to teach the Nash equilibrium (NE) concept. For our purposes, the basic game is a repeated version of the Beauty Contest Game (BCG), a simple guessing game in which repetition lets students react to other players’ choices and converge iteratively to the equilibrium solution. We perform this experiment with undergraduate students with no previous training in game theory. After four rounds, we observe a clear decreasing tendency in the average submitted number in all groups. Thus, our findings prove that by playing a repeated BCG, students quickly learn how to reach the NE solution.
dc.description The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the University of Jaén R+D program (# 20210/148).
dc.language eng
dc.relation IESA Working Paper Series
dc.relation WP 13-04
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Classroom Experiments
dc.subject Beauty Contest Games
dc.subject Teaching
dc.subject Nash Equilibrium
dc.title Teaching Nash Equilibrium and Dominance: A Classroom Experiment on the Beauty Contest
dc.type Documento de trabajo


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