Hold or roll: reaching the goal in jeopardy race games

DOI10.1007/S11238-013-9388-XzbMATH Open1290.91051OpenAlexW1975696424MaRDI QIDQ2015046FDOQ2015046

Authors Darryl A. Seale, William Stein, Amnon Rapoport 

Publication date 18 June 2014

Published in Theory and Decision (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-013-9388-x

zbMATH Keywords

experimentequilibrium solutionsdynamic decision makingjeopardy race game

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Experimental studies (91A90)

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