Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129102 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
WZB Discussion Paper No. SP II 2016-201
Publisher: 
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin
Abstract: 
We study how subjects in an experiment use different forms of public information about their opponents' past behavior. In the absence of public information, subjects appear to use rather detailed statistics summarizing their private experiences. If they have additional public information, they make use of this information even if it is less precise than their own private statistics - except for very high stakes. Making public information more precise has two consequences: It is also used when the stakes are very high and it reduces the number of subjects who ignore any information - public and private. That is, precise public information crowds in the use of own information. Finally, our results shed some light on unravelling in centipede games.
Subjects: 
backward induction
analogy-based expectation equilibrium
learning
experiment
JEL: 
C72
C92
D83
D84
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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