• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Auctioning the right to play ultimatum games and the impact on equilibrium selection
  • Contributor: Shachat, Jason [Author]; Swarthout, J. Todd [Author]
  • Published: Basel: MDPI, 2013
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/g4040738
  • ISSN: 2073-4336
  • Keywords: auction ; forward induction ; ultimatum bargaining ; loss avoidance
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  • Description: We auction scarce rights to play the Proposer and Responder positions in ultimatum games. As a control treatment, we randomly allocate these rights and charge exogenous participation fees. These participation fee sequences match the auction price sequence from a session of the original treatment. With endogenous selection via auctions, we find that play converges to a session-specific Nash equilibrium, and auction prices emerge supporting this equilibrium by the principle of forward induction. With random assignment, we find play also converges to a session-specific Nash equilibrium as predicted by the principle of loss avoidance. While Nash equilibria with low offers are observed, the subgame perfect Nash equilibrium never is.
  • Access State: Open Access
  • Rights information: Attribution (CC BY)