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Group Behaviour

A special issue of Games (ISSN 2073-4336). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioral and Experimental Game Theory".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2022) | Viewed by 11737

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Anna Conte

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Department of Management, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: econometric modelling of experimental data (experimetrics); structural model estimation; monte Carlo simulation techniques; finite and continuous mixture models; estimation of limited dependent variable models; panel data; simultaneous equation systems; survey methodology; survey data analysis
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Dr. Patrizia Sbriglia

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Department of Economics, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Interests: game theory; experimental game theory; learning behavior; social influence; social identity; group behavior; trust and reciprocity
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Dr. Marco Stimolo

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Department of Economics, University of Campania L. Vanvitelli, C.so Gran Priorato di Malta, 81043 Capua, Italy
Interests: trust; trustworthiness; growth; inequality; crime; behavioral anomalies

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Formal or informal membership of a group has been shown to significantly influence individuals’ behaviour in a wide range of economically relevant situations: From the shaping of consumers’ preferences, to investment decisions and cooperative choices. Systematic in-group behaviour may have several catalysts with different economic implications: conformity; social identity; moral commitment or beliefs-dependent preferences (e.g., guilt aversion).

We encourage submission of theoretical and experimental studies aimed at disentangling the effect of the driving forces of group behaviour in different decision environments, e.g., coordination games, social dilemmas, auctions and decision making under risk and ambiguity.

Literature reviews or appraisals of existing literature are also encouraged.

Dr. Anna Conte
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Dr. Patrizia Sbriglia
Dr. Marco Stimolo
Co-Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • group behaviour
  • conformity
  • social identity
  • beliefs-dependent preferences
  • moral commitment

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Consciously Uncertain: A Bayesian Analysis of Preferences Formation
by Marco Stimolo, Sergio Beraldo, Salvatore Capasso and Valerio Filoso
Games 2022, 13(1), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/g13010014 - 22 Jan 2022
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We investigate experimentally whether players deliberately use irrelevant market cues to shape their evaluations of a traded item. We implement a repeated Vickrey median price selling auction of an unusual bad where players are informed on the market price and on the three [...] Read more.
We investigate experimentally whether players deliberately use irrelevant market cues to shape their evaluations of a traded item. We implement a repeated Vickrey median price selling auction of an unusual bad where players are informed on the market price and on the three lowest or highest asks. We elicited players’ consideration of market signals through a questionnaire at the end of the auction. We find that extreme information has a stronger influence on players’ evaluations than the market price. However, players’ consideration of the market signals explains their behavioral reactivity to the market price but not to the extremes. Hence, players deliberately use an unbiased estimator of the central tendency of the appraisals distribution, while extreme asks’ influence is consistent with a priming effect. Full article
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White List: An Administrative Tool to Contrast Crime
by Amelia Barletta, Carlo Capuano and Alessandro De Iudicibus
Games 2022, 13(1), 8; https://doi.org/10.3390/g13010008 - 30 Dec 2021
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White Lists are lists of firms set up at each Italian prefecture. It is a relatively young instrument born as an experimental project designed to solve problems for particular conditions of crime and corruption in the Italian territory. This work aims to understand [...] Read more.
White Lists are lists of firms set up at each Italian prefecture. It is a relatively young instrument born as an experimental project designed to solve problems for particular conditions of crime and corruption in the Italian territory. This work aims to understand if the “White List” tool can represent a reliable legality tool for the contracting station and representation for firms registered in these lists, an incentive to obtain awards for faster times of public procurement. Through a descriptive survey, we will try to photograph the “White List” phenomenon by comparing firms belonging to these lists with companies not belonging to them but which are similar in terms of size and economic sector. The comparison takes off some differences in the financial structure of the two groups of companies. in particular, the White List’s firms show a better profitability and a lower recourse to third-party capital. Full article
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The Impact of Discretionary Measurement Criteria on Investors’ Judgement and Decisions
by Tiago Cruz Gonçalves
Games 2022, 13(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/g13010003 - 23 Dec 2021
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This study investigates the effect on nonprofessional investors’ judgements and decisions of discretionary measurement choices. Using a paper-and-pencil experience, we collect and analyze information regarding investment amounts as well as past and future financial performance judgements of firms’ earnings by manipulating fair value [...] Read more.
This study investigates the effect on nonprofessional investors’ judgements and decisions of discretionary measurement choices. Using a paper-and-pencil experience, we collect and analyze information regarding investment amounts as well as past and future financial performance judgements of firms’ earnings by manipulating fair value (mark-to-market and mark-to-model) criteria and benchmarking it with historical cost-based financial statements. We proxy nonprofessional investors with graduate students from a business school. Our results show evidence that nonprofessional investors view fair value changes as permanent. We argue for a cashflow volatility factor. Contrary to previous research, we do not find evidence of any effect on investors’ willingness to invest (average budget amounts invested) or performance judgments (past and future). We corroborate previous evidence that investors rank measurement concepts’ relevance differently for different classes, although, on average, mark-to-market fair values and historical cost are rated more relevant and reliable than mark-to-model fair values. Full article
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What Economists Can Learn from “The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities for Personal and Collective Success” by Jay J. Van Bavel and Dominick J. Packer
by Daniela Grieco
Games 2022, 13(2), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/g13020023 - 10 Mar 2022
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Social identity theory has become increasingly important for economists. I discuss the contribution of Van Bavel and Packer’s “The Power of Us” in light of what economists (especially experimental ones) can learn from their research. Full article
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