Apakah Agen Ekonomi Rasional? Sebuah Eksperimen Ekonomi dengan Beauty Contest Game

Bambang Siswanto

Abstract


The rationality of economic agents is an axiom of microeconomics. Disagreements about the rationality of economic agent continue to increase in line with developments in the use of experimental economic methods. The research problem is whether there is an increase in the rationality of economic agent when faced with the same and repeated decision-making situations. Data collection using the experimental method with p-BCG (Beauty Contest Game). Data analysis using descriptive statistical techniques. The results showed the subject carried out a numerical cognitive learning process in repeated experiments with the same treatment. In conclusion, the rationality of economic agent increases in the same and repeated decision-making situations.


Keywords


Beauty Contest Game; rationality of economic agent; experimental economic

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