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March 14, 2025, Hans-Theo Normann - Algorithmic Cooperation

Abstract- Self-learning algorithms play an increasingly important role in economic situations. These situations are often strategic, where the artificial intelligence may or may not be cooperative. We compare human and algorithmic cooperation rates in the infinitely repeated prisoner’s dilemma and study which strategies they choose to cooperate and punish deviations. Through a sequence of computational and human-player experiments, we find that algorithms tend to cooperate less than humans, particularly when cooperation is risky or not incentive-compatible. Algorithms often use different strategies than humans, leading to different on and off-path behavior.

Bio- Hans-Theo Normann is Professor of Game Theory and Experimental Economics at the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Bonn. He studied economics and philosophy in Freiburg and Oxford and received his PhD in economics from the European University Institute (Florence). Normann is particularly interested in the application of laboratory experiments to competition policy issues. He has published more than 70 articles on this topic and has lectured on this area of research at various competition authorities, including the US Department of Justice and the Directorate General for Competition in Brussels.

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Sept. 28, 2012 Charles Thomas, Ph.D. - An Alternating-Offers Model of Multilateral Negotiations - Watch lecture

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Oct. 29, 2010 Svetlana Pevnitskaya, Ph.D. - The Effect of Access to Clean Technology on Pollution Reduction: an Experiment. 

Oct. 22, 2010 Craig Yirush, Ph.D. – Indigenous Rights in Early Modern Perspective. 

Oct. 15, 2010 John Duffy, Ph.D. – A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach to Asset Pricing Experiments. 

Oct. 5, 2010 Andreas Wilke, Ph.D. - Past and Present Environments: The Evolution of Decision Making

Sept. 24, 2010 David Schmidtz, Ph.D. - What is Nonideal Theory?

Sept. 10, 2010 Charles Thomas, Ph.D. - Equilibrium Behavior in a Model of Multilateral Negotiations 

May 7, 2010 Jim Gentle, Ph.D. - The Contribution of Jumps to the Volatility of Asset Prices 

Apr. 23, 2010 Robert Kurzban Ph.D. -  Adaptationist Morality

Apr. 16, 2010 Menas Kafatos - Climate Change, Facts and Hype: Hazards and Impacts and What does the Future hold?

Apr. 9, 2010 Gregory Waymire, Ph.D. - Can Trust Be Sustained in an Uncertain World When Individuals Have Machiavellian Intelligence?

Mar. 26, 2010 John Rust, Ph.D. - The Flat Rental Puzzle

Mar. 19, 2010 Jason Aimone, Ph.D. - Endogenous Group Formation Through Sacrificial Costs

Mar. 12, 2010 Deirdre McCloskey, Ph.D. - Linguinomics: Thoughts and Theorems about Language in the Economy

Feb. 26, 2010 Ryan Opera, Ph.D. - A Continuous Dilemma

Feb. 19, 2010 Oliver Goodenough, Ph.D. -  Strategic Mechanisms, Functional Modeling and Experimental Design in Neurolaw. 

Feb. 12, 2010 Henry Butler, Ph.D. – Are State Consumer Protection Acts Really Mini-FTC Acts?  

Feb. 5, 2010 Kevin McCabe, Ph.D.

Dec. 2, 2009 Jeffrey Tollaksen, Ph.D. - New Ideas About the Nature of Time 

Nov. 13, 2009 Sarah F. Brosnan, Ph.D. - An Evolutionary Perspective on the Perception and Utilization of Property. 

Nov. 6, 2009 James Konow Ph.D. – Just Luck:  An Experimental Study of Risk Taking and Fairness

Oct. 30, 2009 Jerome Busemeyer Ph.D. - A Computational Model of the Attention Process Used to Generate Decision Weights. 

Oct. 26, 2009 Harold Demsetz - Externalities and Social Cost

Oct. 23, 2009 Dan Kovenock Ph.D. –   The Optimal Defense of Networks of Targets. 

Oct. 9, 2009 Monica Smith, Ph.D. - A cognitive History of Material Objects:  The Archaeology of Possession, Inheritance, and Value . 

Sept. 25, 2009 Bart J. Wilson, Ph.D. - The Ecological and Civil Mainsprings of Property: An Experimental Economic History of Whalers’ Rules of Capture

Sept. 18, 2009 Thomas W. Hazlett, Ph.D.  – Tragedy TV: Rights Fragmentation and the Junk Band Problem . 

May 20 , 2009 Gerd Gigerenzer Ph.D. - Homo Heuristicus: Why Biased Minds Make Better Inferences. 

May 7, 2009 Matt Ridley Ph.D. - The Role of Exchange and Specialization in Human Prosperity.

Apr. 24, 2009 Dan Bogart Ph.D. - Parliament and the Adaptability of Property Rights:  A case study of Estate Acts and the London Property Market. 

Apr. 17, 2009 Jasmina Arifovic Ph.D. - A Behavioral Model for Mechanism Design: Individual Evolutionary Learning. 

Apr. 3, 2009 John Dickhaut Ph.D. - High Stakes Behavior with Low Payoffs: Inducing Preferences with Holt-Laury Gambles . 

Mar. 27, 2009 Arun Sood Ph.D. – Self Cleansing Intrusion Tolerance .  

Mar. 20, 2009 John Ledyard Ph.D. – Individual Evolutionary Learning, Other-regarding Preferences, and the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism. 

Mar. 13, 2009 Gregory Waymire Ph.D. - Transaction Records, Impersonal Exchange, and Division of Labor. 

Mar. 6, 2009 James Murphy Ph.D. – Rent Dissipation in Competitive Fisheries: An Experimental Analysis. 

Feb. 27, 2009 Amnon Rapoport Ph.D. - Coordination in Large-scale Networks under Two different Information Structures: A Laboratory Study.

Feb. 13, 2009 Elena Asparouhova Ph.D. - Cognitive Biases, Ambiguity Aversion and Asset Pricing in Financial Markets. 

Feb. 6, 2009 Cary Deck Ph.D. - Sequentially Pricing Multiple Products: Theory and Experiments. 

Jan. 16, 2009 Jean-Laurent Rosenthal Ph.D. – Market for Mortgages. 

Dec. 5, 2008 Hillard Kaplan Ph.D. - Evolution of Aging. 

Nov. 21, 2008 Michael McBride Ph.D. -  Conflict and the Shadow of the Future: An Experimental Study.   Background and theoretical basis.  

Nov. 7, 2008 Larry Iannaccone Ph.D. - Looking Backward: A Cross-National Study of Religious Trends. 

Nov. 6, 2008 Barry Chiswick Ph.D. - Why is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants? 

Oct. 31, 2008 John Dickhaut Ph.D. -  Efficient Markets and Drift: A Computational Approach. Watch lecture

Oct. 24, 2008 Abel Winn Ph.D. - Framing Effects in Two-Side Clock Auctions. 

Oct. 17, 2008 Eric Schoenberg Ph.D. - Relative Wealth Concerns and Asset Bubbles: An Experimental Approach. 

Oct. 3, 2008 Peter Bossaerts Ph.D. - Exploring the Nature of "Trading Intuition"

Sept. 15, 2008 Thomas A.  Rietz Ph.D. - Product market efficiency:  The bright side of myopic, uninformed, and passive external finance