Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/49699 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CeDEx Discussion Paper Series No. 2011-05
Publisher: 
The University of Nottingham, Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham
Abstract: 
The standard chicken game is a popular model of certain important real scenarios but does not allow for the escalation behaviour these are typically associated with. This is problematic if the critical, final decisions in these scenarios are sensitive to previous escalation. We introduce and analyse, theoretically and by experiment, a new game which permits escalation behaviour. Compared with an equivalent chicken game, Pareto-suboptimal outcomes are significantly more frequent. This result is inconsistent with our rational choice analysis and possible psychological roots are explored.
Subjects: 
escalation
brinkmanship
chicken game
experiments
JEL: 
C72
C78
C91
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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