The Selten School of Behavioral Economics: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Reinhard Selten

✍ Scribed by Abdolkarim Sadrieh (auth.), Abdolkarim Sadrieh, Axel Ockenfels (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 311
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Reinhard Selten, to date the only German Nobel Prize laureate in economics, celebrates his 80th birthday in 2010. While his contributions to game theory are well-known, the behavioral side of his scientific work has received less public exposure, even though he has been committed to experimental research during his entire career, publishing more experimental than theoretical papers in top-tier journals. This Festschrift is dedicated to Reinhard Selten’s exceptional influence on behavioral and experimental economics. In this collection of academic highlight papers, a number of his students are joined by leading scholars in experimental research to document the historical role of the “Meister” in the development of the research methodology and of several sub-fields of behavioral economics. Next to the academic insight in these highly active fields of experimental research, the papers also provide a glance at Reinhard Selten’s academic and personal interaction with his students and peers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Reinhard Selten a Wanderer....Pages 3-7
Encounters with Reinhard Selten: An Office Mate’s Report....Pages 9-17
Reinhard Selten’s Frankfurt Years from the Perspective of a Co-player....Pages 19-28
Reinhard Selten and the Scientific Climate in Frankfurt During the Fifties....Pages 29-32
Reinhard Selten Labs, Bounded Rationality and China....Pages 33-49
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
Drei Oligopolexperimente....Pages 53-72
Deviations from Equilibrium in an Experiment on Signaling Games: First Results....Pages 73-87
Strategy Choice and Network Effects....Pages 89-109
Walking with Reinhard Selten and the Guessing Game: From the Origin to the Brain....Pages 111-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Understanding Negotiations: A Video Approach in Experimental Gaming....Pages 127-165
Institutions Fostering Public Goods Provision....Pages 167-184
Social Behavior in Economic Games....Pages 185-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
The Equity Principle in Employment Relationships....Pages 205-219
The Analysis of Incentives in Firms: An Experimental Approach....Pages 221-241
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon’s ‘Essays on Moral Arithmetic’....Pages 245-282
Risky Choice and the Construction of Preferences....Pages 283-295

✦ Subjects

Game Theory/Mathematical Methods; Methodology of the Social Sciences

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