Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law: possession, property, and coordination in a Hawk–Dove Experiment
通过实验室实验研究人类在鹰鸽博弈中如何基于占有形成财产惯例，发现当占有通过努力获得时协调程度最高，且占有只引发资产阶级策略而非反资产阶级策略。
Abstract In all legal systems, possession and property are inextricably linked. Game theory captures this relationship in the Hawk–Dove game: players competing for an asset are better off when the possessor plays Hawk and the intruder plays Dove (the bourgeois strategy) so that property can emerge as a spontaneous convention. This theory has been supported by large experimental evidence with animals. This paper presents a lab experiment where possession is manipulated to study the emergence of the property convention with human subjects. We show that the highest coordination emerges when possession is achieved meritoriously and that possession induces only bourgeois coordination (never antibourgeois).