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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Multiple behavioral rules in Cournot oligopolies |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 0167-2681 |
| Volume | 183 |
| Page Range | 250 - 267 |
| Date | 2021 |
| Abstract Text | We study intra-individual behavioral heterogeneity in an experimental Cournot oligopoly. Previous empirical results in this setting have demonstrated convergence to competitive outcomes, in agreement with theoretical predictions assuming that players imitate successful opponents. We postulate that players sometimes rely on imitation of successful behavior, and sometimes best reply to the actions of others. Testable predictions are obtained from a model allowing for multiple behavioral rules which accounts for differences in the cognitive nature of the underlying decision processes. Those include non-trivial response time interactions depending on whether the rules share a common prescription (alignment) or not (conflict), a classification which is ex ante observable. The results confirm the hypotheses and support the presence of multiple behavioral rules at the individual level. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.12.034 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:20671 |
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| Keywords | Economics and Econometrics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Cournot oligopoly, Imitation, Best reply, Multiple behavioral rules |