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| Title: | | Experimenting with strategic experimentation: Risk taking, neighborhood size and network structure  |
| Authors: | | Große, Niels Daniel |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Jena economic research papers 2010,011 |
| Abstract: | | This paper investigates the effects of neighborhood size and network structure on strategic experimentation. We analyze a multi-arm bandit game with one safe and two risky alternatives. In this setting, risk taking produces a learning externality and an opportunity for free riding. We conduct a laboratory experiment to investigate whether group size and the network structure affect risk taking. We find that group size has an effect on risk taking that is qualitatively in line with equilibrium predictions. Introducing an asymmetry among agents in the same network with respect to neighborhood size leads to substantial deviations from equilibrium play. Findings suggests that subjects react to changes in their direct neighborhood but fail to play a best-response to their position within the network. |
| Subjects: | | strategic experimentation experiment bandit game risk taking |
| JEL: | | C91 D81 D85 O33 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
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