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Software for continuous game experiments

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  • Pettit, James
  • Friedman, Daniel
  • Kephart, Curtis
  • Oprea, Ryan

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ConG is software for conducting economic experiments in continuous and discrete time. It allows experimenters with limited programming experience to create a variety of strategic environments featuring rich visual feedback in continuous time and over continuous action spaces, as well as in discrete time or over discrete action spaces. Simple, easily edited input files give the experimenter considerable flexibility in specifying the strategic environment and visual feedback. Source code is modular and allows researchers with programming skills to create novel strategic environments and displays.

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  • Pettit, James & Friedman, Daniel & Kephart, Curtis & Oprea, Ryan, 2014. "Software for continuous game experiments," Santa Cruz Department of Economics, Working Paper Series qt92h1b2br, Department of Economics, UC Santa Cruz.
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