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Equilibrium selection in coordination games has generated a large literature. Kandori, Mailath and Rob (1993) and Young (1993) studied dynamic models of aggregate behaviour in which agents choose best responses to observations of population play. Crucially, infrequent mistakes (`mutations`)...
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threshold is reached, potentially generating an equilibrium-selection problem. When the evolution of play approximates a best …
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evolution of collective action: as part of a strategy-revision process, updating players choose quantal responses to existing …
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This paper demonstrates that inertia driven by switching costs leads to more rapid evolution in a class of games that … inertia states that allow Ellison`s (Review of Economic Studies 67, 2000, 17-45) step-by-step evolution to occur. …
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The volunteer`s dilemma is an asymmetric n-player binary-action game in which a public good is provided if and only if at least one player volunteers, and consequently bears some private cost. So long as the value generated for every player exceeds this private cost there are n pure-strategy...
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This paper models the indirect evolution of the preferences of a population of fully rational agents repeatedly matched … requires the extension of recent techniques for evolution on infinite strategy spaces, introducing new setwise stability …
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This paper studies n-player collective-action games in which a public good is produced if and only if m or more volunteers contribute to it. Quantal-response strategy revisions allow play to move between equilibria in which a team of m players successfully provide, and an equilibrium in which...
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Team formation will often involve a coordination problem. If no-one else is contributing to a team, there is little point in an agent exerting any effort. Similarly, once a team is formed, an agent within the team will not leave, as to do so would result in team collapse; non-contributing agents...
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Models of macroeconomic learning are populated by agents who possess a great deal of knowledge of the "true" structure … of the economy, and yet ignore the impact of their own learning on that structure; they may learn about an equilibrium …, but they do not learn within it.  An alternative learning model is presented where agents' decisions are informed by …
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are in the dark about others' actions and the payoff structure.  This paper analyzes learning behavior in such 'black box … we study voluntary contributions games.  We identify two robust features of the players' learning dynamics: search …
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