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Software for continuous game experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

James Pettit ,
Daniel Friedman ,
Curtis Kephart  and
Ryan Oprea
James Pettit*
Affiliation:
Economics Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA
Daniel Friedman*
Affiliation:
Economics Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA
Curtis Kephart*
Affiliation:
Economics Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA
Ryan Oprea*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA
*
James.L.Pettit@gmail.com
dan@ucsc.edu
curtiskephart@gmail.com
roprea@gmail.com
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Abstract

ConG is software for conducting economic experiments in continuous and discrete time. It allows experimenters with limited programming experience to create a variety of strategic environments featuring rich visual feedback in continuous time and over continuous action spaces, as well as in discrete time or over discrete action spaces. Simple, easily edited input files give the experimenter considerable flexibility in specifying the strategic environment and visual feedback. Source code is modular and allows researchers with programming skills to create novel strategic environments and displays.

Keywords

Experimental economicsContinuous timeSoftware for laboratory experiments

JEL classification

C88: Other Computer Software C90: General C70: General

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Original Paper
Information
Experimental Economics , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 2014 , pp. 631 - 648
Copyright
Copyright © 2014 Economic Science Association

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