Information in Repeated Ultimatum Game with Unknown Pie Size

  • Lee C
  • Lau W
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Within existing literature, it is well known that people’s behavior in ultimatum game experiments cannot be explained by perfect rationality model. There is, however, evidence showing that people are boundedly rational. In this paper, we studied repeated ultimatum game experiments in which the pie size is only known to the proposer (player 1), but the transaction history is made known to both players. We found that subject’s behavior can be very well explained by the history-consistent-rationality model (HCR model) of Lee and Ferguson (2010), which suggests that people’s behavior is affected by what they observed in the past. The HCR model is able to yield point predictions whose errors are on average within 5% of the total pie size. The experimental results provide evidence that subjects' behavior is boundedly rational with respect to the transaction history.

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Lee, C. C., & Lau, W. K. (2013). Information in Repeated Ultimatum Game with Unknown Pie Size. Economics Research International, 2013, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/470412

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