For my ECON 7710 (Microeconomic Theory 2) I co-authored a short paper that tackled The Tragedy of the Commons game, from the firm's point of view.
To see the theoretical outcome of this game for different industry sizes, I wrote the package "gamepaper" that provides the structure and estimates the payoffs, best responses and equilibriums of each firm for a given industry size. The pckage also has a function "eliminated_rand" that randomly selects a subset of players from our list of total participants. This function is used to select the ones that will participate in each game, as well as those that will be eliminated.
To see the empirical outcome of this game for different industry sizes, my research team and I will do an experiment with 10-15 students at our university. Each of the students will be tasked with the role of a firm in this game, were all of them will be asked to provide their responses simulatenously and without cooperation.
To see the original R script (with the functions), R Markdown and LaTeX Appendix (of our paper) derived from this package, please click here .
To install from GitHub:
require(devtools)
install_github("dayanara846/gamepaper", dependencies = NA)
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