Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107884 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 15-012/VII
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
In the past, many refinements have been proposed to select equilibria in cheap talk games. Usually, these refinements were motivated by a discussion of how rational agents would reason in some particular cheap talk games. In this paper, we propose a new refinement and stability measure that is intended to predict actual behavior in a wide range of cheap talk games. According to our Average Credible Deviation Criterion (ACDC), the stability of an equilibrium is determined by the frequency and size of credible deviations. ACDC organizes the results from several cheap talk experiments in which behavior converged to equilibrium, even in cases where other criteria do not make a prediction.
Subjects: 
Cheap talk
Neologism proofness
Credible deviation
Refinement
ACDC
Experiment
JEL: 
C72
C92
D82
D83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
401.68 kB





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