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Second price allpay auctions (wars of attritions) have an evolutionarily stable equilibrium in pure strategies if valuations are private information. I show that for any level of uncertainty there exists a pure deviation strategy close to the equilibrium strategy such that for some valuations...
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We provide an evolutionary foundation to evidence that in some situations humans maintain optimistic or pessimistic attitudes towards uncertainty and are ignorant to relevant aspects of the environment. Players in strategic games face Knightian uncertainty about opponents' actions and maximize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276584
Second price allpay auctions (wars of attritions) have an evolutionarily stable equilibrium in pure strategies if valuations are private information. I show that for any level of uncertainty there exists a pure deviation strategy close to the equilibrium strategy such that for some valuations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312970
We provide an evolutionary foundation to evidence that in some situations humans maintain optimistic or pessimistic attitudes towards uncertainty and are ignorant to relevant aspects of the environment. Players in strategic games face Knightian uncertainty about opponents' actions and maximize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004989630
number of standard learning algorithms. The learning theories are (unbeknown to subjects) a best response process, fictitious … play, imitation, reinforcement learning, and a trial & error process. We test whether subjects try to influence those … and that all learning algorithms are subject to exploitation with the notable exception of imitation. The experiment was …
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In this paper we introduce four new learning models: impulse balance learning, impulse matching learning, action …-sampling learning, and payoff-sampling learning. With this models and together with the models of self- tuning EWA learning and … reinforcement learning, we conduct simulations over 12 different 2×2 games and compare the results with experimental data obtained …
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We present a formal model of symmetric n-firm Cournot oligopoly with a heterogeneous population of profit optimizers and imitators. Imitators mimic the output decision of the most successful firms of the previous round a la Vega-Redondo (1997). Optimizers play myopic best response to the...
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In this note we study a very simple trial & error learning process in the context of a Cournot oligopoly. Without any …
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equilibrium of the game does not organize the individual data, two individual learning models are studied: one following a … predictive value of such learning models is found to be poor. …
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Recently there has been much theoretical and experimental work on learning in games. However, learning usually means … "learning about the strategic behavior of opponents" rather than "learning about the game" as such. In contrast, here we report …
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