Great post. I'm glad you're writing about this! In the market entry games, how is non-communication controlled? Are they all sitting in the same computer lab playing the game at the same time? Are they alone in isolated rooms?
Thank you for the kind words! In their papers, they indicate that studies were run "in the computer-controlled Economic Science Laboratory," which is where I was as a post-doc. That lab is large and the stations were separated by barriers. I suppose it's plausible that there could have been some communication between pairs, but it would have been difficult and sessions were monitored. I don't see any way that the group as a whole could have communicated and coordinated. Such efforts would have been easily detected by the experimenters. But, yes, they all play the game at the same time and are paid at the end of the session individually.
Great post. I'm glad you're writing about this! In the market entry games, how is non-communication controlled? Are they all sitting in the same computer lab playing the game at the same time? Are they alone in isolated rooms?
Thank you for the kind words! In their papers, they indicate that studies were run "in the computer-controlled Economic Science Laboratory," which is where I was as a post-doc. That lab is large and the stations were separated by barriers. I suppose it's plausible that there could have been some communication between pairs, but it would have been difficult and sessions were monitored. I don't see any way that the group as a whole could have communicated and coordinated. Such efforts would have been easily detected by the experimenters. But, yes, they all play the game at the same time and are paid at the end of the session individually.