Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121350 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Center for Mathematical Economics Working Papers No. 542
Publisher: 
Bielefeld University, Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW), Bielefeld
Abstract: 
Using data from an experiment by Forsythe, Myerson, Rietz, and Weber (1993), designed for a different purpose, we test the "standard theory" that players have preferences only over their own mentary payoffs and that play will be in (evolutionary stable) equilibrium. In the experiment each subject is recurrently (24 times) randomly matched with ever changing opponents to play a 14 player game. We find that assuming risk-neutrality for all players leads to a predicted evolutionary stable equilibrium that, while it can be rejected at the 5% level of significance, is nevertheless remarkably close to "explaining" the data. Moreover, when we assume that players are risk-averse and we calibrate their risk-aversion in one treatment with a simple game, this theory cannot be rejected at the 5% level of significance for another treatment with a more complicated game, despite the fact that we have close to 400 data points.
Subjects: 
opinion polls
elections
voting
testing
Nash equilibrium
attainable equilibrium
symmetries
JEL: 
C57
C72
D72
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
441.87 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.