Extrapolation and structural similarity in games

F. Mengel; E. Sciubba

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2014.10.015

Extrapolation and structural similarity in games

F. Mengel^*, E. Sciubba

^*Corresponding author for this work

Microeconomics & Public Economics

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Abstract

We conduct a laboratory experiment and provide evidence of learning spillovers within and across equivalence classes of "structurally similar" games. These spillovers are inconsistent with existing theories of learning in games.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	381-385
Number of pages	5
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	125
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2014.10.015
Publication status	Published - Dec 2014

Keywords

Game theory
Learning
Extrapolation
Similarity
Experiments

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