We study an infinite horizon game in which pairs of players connected in a network are randomly matched to bargain over a unit surplus. Players that reach agreement are replaced by new players at the same positions in the network. We prove that for each discount factor all equilibria are payoff equivalent. The equilibrium payoffs and the set of equilibrium agreement links converge as players be...

We study two-player discounted repeated games in which one player cannot monitor the other unless he pays a fixed amount. It is well known that in such a model the folk theorem holds when the monitoring cost is on the order of magnitude of the stage payoff. We analyze high frequency games in which the monitoring cost is small but still significantly higher than the stage payoff. We characterize...

We derive semi classical approximations to quantum transport models in thin slabs with applications to SOI (Silicon Oxide on Insulator) type semiconductor devices via a sub band approach. In the regime considered the forces acting on the particles across the slab are much larger than the forces in the lateral direction of the slab. In a semi classical limit the transport picture can be describe...

A general mechanism is proposed by which small intrinsic fluctuations in a system far from equilibrium can result in nearly deterministic dynamical behaviors which are markedly distinct from those realized in the meanfield limit. The mechanism is demonstrated for the kinetic MonteCarlo version of the Schnakenberg reaction where we identified a scaling limit in which the global deterministic bif...

We show the existence of solutions for mixed boundary-value problems that model quantum hydrodynamics in thermal equilibrium. Also we find the semi-classical limit of the solutions.

Hitchhiking phenomena and genetic recombination have important consequences for a variety of fields for which birds are model species, yet we know virtually nothing about naturally occurring rates of recombination or the extent of linkage disequilibrium in birds. We took advantage of a previously sequenced cosmid clone from Red-winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) bearing a highly polymorphi...

We study continuous-time stochastic games (with finitely many states and actions), with a focus on the existence of their equilibria that are insensitive to a small imprecision in the specification of players’ evaluations of streams of payoffs. We show that the stationary, namely, time-independent, discounting game has a stationary equilibrium, that the (not necessarily stationary) discounting ...

A new numerical technique is demonstrated and shown to reduce exponentially the time required for Monte Carlo simulations of non-equilibrium systems. The quasi-stationary probability distribution is computed for two model systems, and the results are compared with the asymptotically exact theory in the limit of extremely small noise intensity. Singularities of the non-equilibrium distributions ...

This paper is devoted to the grazing collision limit of the inelastic Kac model introduced in [PT04], when the equilibrium distribution function is a heavy-tailed Lévy-type distribution with infinite variance. We prove that solutions in an appropriate domain of attraction of the equilibrium distribution converge to solutions of a Fokker-Planck equation with a fractional diffusion operator.

We study what topological assumptions should be added to the acyclicity of individual best response improvements in order to ensure the existence of a (pure strategy) Nash equilibrium as well as the possibility to reach a Nash equilibrium in the limit of a best response improvement path. JEL Classification Number: C 72.