Theodore L.
Turocy
Department of Economics
Texas A&M University
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This paper describes a protocol for classroom experiments for
courses which introduce undergraduates to signaling games. Signaling
games are conceptually difficult because, when analyzing the game,
students are not naturally inclined to think in probabilistic, Bayesian
terms. The experimental design explicitly presents the posterior
frequencies of the unobserved events. The protocol's emphasis on the
posterior enhances convergence to the equilibrium prediction, relative
to a treatment in which posterior frequencies are not explicitly
computed. This convergence reinforces the development of the theory in
subsequent lecture periods.
Current version dated December 2006. Available in: [pdf].
The data from the [poker game] and [pooling game] are both available in CSV format.