The two-person beauty contest

DOI10.1016/J.GEB.2007.03.004MaRDI QIDQ2483117zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Brit Grosskopf, Rosemarie Nagel

Publication date 28 April 2008

Published in Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2007.03.004

zbMATH Keywords

beauty contestbounded rationalityguessing gameweak dominance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-person games (91A05) (n)-person games, (n>2) (91A06)

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