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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Coordination Games"”.
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Essays on Experimental Coordination Games
… reported in this dissertation explores the coordination problem faced by economic agents in various strategic environments. The first chapter provides an experimental test of a theory of collusion in the presence of price-matching guarantees and thus throws light on the equilibrium selection …
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Smoothed Complexity of Network Coordination Games
… have shown that in many cases for many types of games, computing Nash equilibria is intractable. However, it has been empirically shown that in many instances, approximate Nash equilibria can be computed efficiently. Thus, there is a growing interest in the smoothed complexity of games. That is, …
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Essays on Salience in Coordination Games: Gender, Punishment and Communication
The issue of coordination is one that has received significant attention in the experimental literature. In this thesis I delve deeper into this by combining and exploring a number of issues from the literature in economics and the social sciences in the context of coordination games. More …
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Stochastically Stable States for Perturbed Repeated Play of Coordination Games
Perturbed repeated play of a two-player two-move coordination game is modeled as an irreducible Markov process on a set of history states describing the most recent m stages of play. At every stage, each player draws a sample from the history state to forecast his opponent's behavior and either …
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The complexity of Nash equilibria in multiplayer zero-sum games and coordination games
… to the class of separable multiplayer zero-sum games, introduced in [Bregman and Fokin 1998]. These games are polymatrix-that is, graphical games in which every edge is a two-player game between its endpoints-in which every outcome has zero total sum of players' payoffs. Our generalization of …
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Essays in political economy
… models for political competition and a class of coordination games, it also includes a chapter focusing on estimation of the U.S. legislators' ideal points in multiple meaningful dimensions. The first chapter presents a formal political competition model with differentiated candidates. In this …
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Nothing to See, Nothing to Say, and Noting How Much Three Essays on Information and Behavior
… the effect of sequential play in Public Goods Games in cases where players move one after another but do not see each others’ moves. Even with no information flow—when there is nothing to see of others’ decisions—order of play affects contributions to the public good. The second essay considers …
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Incomplete information games of conflict and collective action
… analyzes a broad class of incomplete information coordination games with a wide range of applications in economics and politics. The second essay draws from the general model developed in the first essay to study decisions by individuals of whether to engage in protest/revolution/coup/strike. The …
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Essays on information acquisition
… I study costly information acquisition in games where players can acquire information not only about the state, but also about one another's information in a flexible way. Two main patterns emerges. First, in coordination games, players have a strong incentive to learn what others know: for …
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Dynamic analysis of equilibrium selection in games
… socially efficient equilibria in 2 x 2 symmetric coordination games. In our evolutionary dynamics, there are committed players who can choose only one particular action of the base game, as well as those players who can choose message contingent actions, and the evolution in the choice of message …
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Essays in Evolutionary Game Theory
… switching costs on the long run outcome in 2X2 coordination games played in the circular city model of local interactions. We find that for low levels of switching costs, the risk dominant convention is the unique long run equilibrium. For intermediate levels of switching costs the set of long …
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Convergence Analysis of Heterogeneous Decision-making Populations Under the Coordinating Best-response and Imitation Update Rules
This thesis emphasis is on coordination games. In a coordination game, selecting the same strategy or decision as the opponent is mutually beneficial for both parties. We studied the problem of equilibrium convergence in such games in both discrete and continuous (time) cases. In the first Chapter, …
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Strategic Stochastic Coordination and Learning In Regular Network Games
Coordination is a desirable feature in many multi-agent systems, such as robotic, social and economic networks, allowing the execution of tasks that would be impossible by individual agents. This thesis addresses two problems in stochastic coordination where each agent make decisions strategically, …
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Bail Reform, Large Language Model Risk and Reasoning
… DeAngelo and Bryan C. McCannon, runs a Stag-Hare coordination game with large language models as players. Stag-Hare is the cleaner variant of Stag Hunt: two players each pick the safe option or the cooperative option, and the cooperative payoff dominates only when both pick it. In humans, …
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Essays in Networks and Experimental Economics
… The first chapter theoretically studies network coordination games under adaptive learning agents. The second and third chapters conduct experiments on strategic interactions in networks and on network formation, respectively. The fourth chapter examines the behaviour of Generative Pre-trained …
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Cognitive foundations of strategic behavior : from games to revolutions
… upon receiving enough messages. In 2 x 2 games of complete information, the solution concept lies between Pareto dominance and risk-dominance. In coordination games, the model explains several experimental facts that cannot be accounted for by global games, especially the fact people …
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Networks, decisions, and outcomes : coordination with local information and the value of temporal data for learning influence networks
… role of local information channels in enabling coordination among strategic agents. Building on the standard finite-player global games framework, we show that the set of equilibria of a coordination game is highly sensitive to how information is locally shared among agents. In particular, we …
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Understanding Social Behaviour - Macaque behaviour in coordination and cooperation games and the encoding of inequity in striatum
… of inequity. The second part includes a study on coordination and cooperation behaviour in macaques. Inequity is a concept ubiquitous in daily life. It is the difference between one’s own reward and that of another. There have been several studies that have suggested inequity affects brain …
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An Analysis of the Competitive Dynamics Behind the Disruptor’s Dilemma
… perplexing phenomenon under the lens of a global coordination game of incomplete public and private information; and more precisely an adaptation of a game of regime change. Incumbents can decide to support or not the potential disruptor, who becomes successful only if a sufficient mass of …
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Rational communication for the coordination of multi-Agent systems
… solve the problem efficiently. In more detail, coordination is here viewed as the problem of managing the interactions of these autonomous entities so that they do not disrupt each other, can take proactive actions to help each other, and take multiple actions at the same time when this is …