Professionals Play Minimax

By Ignacio Palacios-Huerta. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research

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The Promise and Success of Lab-Field Generalizability in Experimental Economics: A Critical Reply to Levitt and List (2011, background): “…same limit applies to field-field comparisons (see Liebbrandt [2011]) Soccer: Palacios-Huerta and Volij [2008] (PHV 2008 herein) designed a 2x2 lab matching pennies game designed closely to resemble soccer penalty kicks, in which players appear to approximately randomize [Palacios-Huerta, 2003].”
Fear and the Response to Terrorism: An Economic Analysis (2011, background): “Our main 17Recently, Palacios-Huerta (2003) and Palacios-Huerta and Volij (2008) find that soccer players randomize in the field as well as in the lab (in both a game that resembles a penalty kick and in a zero-sum game they have not seen previously) respectively 15 sample for the survey years 1999…”
Action bias among elite soccer goalkeepers: The case of penalty kicks (2007, background): “Because the time it takes the ball to reach the goal from the penalty mark is only about 0.2-0.3 seconds (see Chiappori, Levitt and Groseclose, 2002; Palacios-Huerta, 2003), the goalkeeper generally cannot afford to wait until he sees clearly to which direction the ball is kicked before choosing…”
Does Experience Teach? Professionals and Minimax Play in the Lab (2010, neutral): “(See Walker-Wooders (2001) and Hsu-HuangTang (2007) for tennis, and Chiapppori, Levitt, and Groseclose (2002) and Palacios-Huerta (2003) for soccer).”
Favoritism Under Social Pressure (2005, methodology): “Recent studies have also tested for Nash equilibrium behavior in strategic settings using sports data (for example, Walker & Wooders, 2001; Chiappori, Levitt, & Groseclose, 2002; Palacios-Huerta, 2003).”
Experientia Docet: Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments ∗ (2008, methodology): “Palacios-Huerta (2003) found that the behavior of professional players in the soccer field was consistent with equilibrium play: (i) their winning probabilities were statistically identical across strategies and (ii) their choices were serially independent.”
Goal! Profit Maximization Versus Win Maximization in Soccer (2009, background): “Testing for mixed strategies in tennis (Walker and Wooders 2001) and penalty taking in soccer (Chiappori et al. 2002; Palacios-Huerta 2003 ) are perhaps two of the best known examples that confirm behavior consistent with maximizing choices by contestants.”