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| Title: | | Billiards and brains: Cognitive ability and behaviour in a p-beauty contest  |
| Authors: | | Burnham, Terence C. Cesarini, David Wallace, Björn |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 684 |
| Abstract: | | Beauty contests are well-studied, dominance-solvable games that generate two interesting results. First, most behavior does not conform to the unique Nash equilibrium. Second, there is considerable unexplained heterogeneity in behavior. In this work, we evaluate the relationship between beauty contest behavior and cognitive ability. We find that subjects with high cognitive ability exhibit behavior that is closer to the Nash equlibrium. We examine this finding through the prism of economic and biological theory. |
| Subjects: | | beauty contest rationality cognitive ability Nash equlibrium |
| JEL: | | C90 D01 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance, EFI - The Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics
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