Altruistic observational learning

DOI10.1016/J.JET.2020.105123MaRDI QIDQ2220936zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Christoph March, Anthony Ziegelmeyer

Publication date 25 January 2021

Published in Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/files/221333094/Altruistic_ObsLearn.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

altruismexperimentsherd behaviorobservational learningoverconfidence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rationality and learning in game theory (91A26) Experimental studies (91A90)

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• Self-Correcting Information Cascades
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• Social learning with private and common values

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• Z-Tree
• ORSEE

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