Conjectural variations in aggregative games: An evolutionary perspective
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Conjectural variations in aggregative games: An evolutionary perspective
Suppose that in symmetric aggregative games, in which payoffs depend only on a player’s strategy and on an aggregate of all players’ strategies, players have conjectures about the reaction of the aggregate to marginal changes in their strategy. The players play a conjectural variation equilibrium, which determines their fitness payoffs. The paper shows that only consistent conjectures can be ev...
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عنوان ژورنال: Mathematical Social Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0165-4896
DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2015.07.003