A game theoretical study of generalised trust and reciprocation in Poland: II. A description of the study group

• Authors: Urszula MARKOWSKA-PRZYBYŁA , David RAMSEY
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The first article describing this project presented the three games that the participants played: the Ultimatum Game, the Trust Game and the Public Goods Game. This article describes the study group on the basis of a questionnaire regarding where they study and come from, their social contacts, interest in current issues, views on inequality and outlook on life. A description of the migratory decisions of students is given. In particular, two exploratory methods are used to investigate the data’s structure: Bayesian networks and principal component analysis. Bayesian networks are used to illustrate the associations between categorical variables. Principal component analysis is designed to describe latent variables which reflect the associations between numerical variables. We present the results of this analysis and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these two methods.

Keywords

EN

Bayesian networks; principal component analysis; social survey; experimental game theory

• Publisher: Politechnika Wrocławska. Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej
• Journal: Operations Research and Decisions
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 51-73

Contributors

author

Urszula MARKOWSKA-PRZYBYŁA

• Faculty of Economics, Management and Tourism, Wrocław University of Economics, ul. Kochanowskiego 8, 58-500 Jelenia Góra, Poland

author

David RAMSEY

• Department of Computer Science and Management, Wrocław University of Technology, ul. Łukasiewicza 5, 50-371 Wrocław, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.5277/ord150204