Eliciting beliefs in beauty contest experiments
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Keywords
Beauty contest; Belief elicitation; Higher order beliefs; Level of sophistication; Reasoning; Strategic play;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C9 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments
- D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
- D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
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