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Invitation games: an experimental approach to coalition formation

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Veröffentlicht in: Games 12(2021), 3 vom: Sept., Artikel-ID 64, Seite 1-20
Personen und Körperschaften: Abe, Takaaki (VerfasserIn), Funaki, Yukihiko (VerfasserIn), Shinoda, Taro (VerfasserIn)
Titel: Invitation games: an experimental approach to coalition formation/ Takaaki Abe, Yukihiko Funaki and Taro Shinoda
Format: E-Book-Kapitel
Sprache: Englisch
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2021
Gesamtaufnahme: : Games, 12(2021), 3 vom: Sept., Artikel-ID 64, Seite 1-20
, volume:12
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Zusammenfassung: This paper studies how to form an efficient coalition$da group of people. More specifically, we compare two mechanisms for forming a coalition by running a laboratory experiment and reveal which mechanism leads to higher social surplus. In one setting, we invite the subjects to join a meeting simultaneously, so they cannot know the other subjects' decisions. In the other setting, we ask them sequentially, which allows each subject to know his or her predecessor's choice. Those who decide to join the meeting form a coalition and earn payoffs according to their actions and individual preferences. As a result, we obtain the following findings. First, the sequential mechanism induces higher social surplus than the simultaneous mechanism. Second, most subjects make choices consistent with the subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium in the sequential setting and choose the dominant strategy in the simultaneous setting, when a dominant strategy exists. Finally, when the subjects need to look further ahead to make a theoretically rational choice, they are more likely to fail to choose rationally.
ISSN: 2073-4336
DOI: 10.3390/g12030064
Zugang: Open Access