1 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 Outline In-Class Experiment and Motivation Adaptive Experience-Weighted Attraction (EWA) Learning in Games: Camerer and Ho (Econometrica, 1999) Sophisticated EWA Learning and Strategic Teaching: Camerer, Ho, and Chong (JET, 2002) Self-tuning EWA Learning (EWA Lite): Ho, Camerer, and Chong (2004)
2 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 Actual versus Belief-Based Model Frequencies: pBC (inexperienced subjects)
3 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 Actual versus Reinforcement Model Frequencies: pBC (inexperienced subjects)
4 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 Actual versus EWA Model Frequencies: pBC (inexperienced subjects)
5 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 Actual versus Belief-Based Model Frequencies: pBC (experienced subjects)
6 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 Actual versus Reinforcement Model Frequencies: pBC (experienced subjects)
7 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 Actual versus EWA Model Frequencies: pBC (experienced subjects)
8 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 Three User Complaints of EWA 1.0 u Experience matters. u EWA 1.0 prediction is not sensitive to the structure of the learning setting (e.g., matching protocol). u EWA 1.0 model does not use opponents’ payoff matrix to predict behavior.
9 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 Sophisticated EWA Learning (EWA 2.0) u The population consists of both adaptive and sophisticated players. The proportion of sophisticated players is denoted by . Each sophisticated player however believes the proportion of sophisticated players to be ’ u Use latent class to estimate parameters.
10 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 The EWA 2.0 Model: Adaptive players Adaptive ( ) + sophisticated ( ) Adaptive players
11 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 The EWA 2.0 Model: Sophisticated Players Adaptive ( ) + sophisticated ( ) Sophisticated players believe ( )proportion of the players are adaptive and best respond based on that belief: Better-than-others ( ); false consensus ( )
12 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 Well-known Special Cases Nash equilibrium: ’ = 1 and = infinity Quanta response equilibrium: ’ = 1 Rational expectation model: ’ Better-than-others model: ’
13 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 Results
14 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 MLE Estimates
15 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 Strategic Teaching u So far, all players are myopic. They only care about immediate payoffs. u Sophisticated players would want to “control” or “manipulate” the learning paths of the adaptive players if they are non- myopic (i.e., care beyond immediate payoffs). u In evaluating the attractiveness of a strategy, a strategic teacher compute its NPV, taking into account the potential of the strategy in influencing adaptive players to evolve into desirable outcomes in the future.
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17 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 Out-of-Sample Prediction
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19 Teck H. Ho April 8, 2004 In-Sample Calibration
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