Perfect versus imperfect observability---An experimental test of Bagwell's result
Steffen Huck and
Wieland Mueller
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Wieland Mueller: Humboldt University Berlin
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Experimental from University Library of Munich, Germany
Abstract:
In a seminal paper Bagwell (1995) claims that the first mover advantage, i.e. the strategic benefit of committing oneself to an action before others can do, vanishes completely if this action is only imperfectly observed by second movers. In our paper we report on an experimental test of this prediction. We implement three versions of a game similar to an example^? given by Bagwell, each time varying the quality of the signal which informs the second mover. For experienced players we do not find empirical support for Bagwell's result. Instead, we find some support for the noisy Stackelberg equilibrium emphasised by van Damme and Hurkens (1997).
Keywords: commitment; first-mover advantage; imperfect observability; experimental economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C9 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 1998-04-17
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Note: Type of Document - ps; prepared on IBM PC; pages: 19 ; figures: included
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