Two-speed evolution of strategies and preferences in symmetric games

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URL:	http://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/2799
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-27993
Document Type:	Working paper
Year of publication:	2002
The title of a journal, publication series:	None
Publication language:	English
Institution:	School of Law and Economics > Sonstige - Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft und Volkswirtschaftslehre
MADOC publication series:	Sonderforschungsbereich 504 > Rationalitätskonzepte, Entscheidungsverhalten und ökonomische Modellierung (Laufzeit 1997 - 2008)
Subject:	300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
Classification:	JEL: A13 C72 ,
Subject headings (SWD):	Mikroökonomie , Verhalten , Nutzentheorie , Nichtkooperatives Spiel , Evolutionäre Spieltheorie
Keywords (English):	two-speed evolution , symmetric games , evolutionary stability
Abstract:	Agents in a large population are randomly matched to play a material payoff game. They may have preferences that are different from the material payoffs. Agents learn equilibrium strategies according to their preferences before evolution changes the preference distribution in the population according to fitness. When agents know the preferences of the opponent in a match, only efficient symmetric strategy profiles of the material payoff game can be stable. When agents do not know the preferences of the opponent, only Nash equilibria of the material payoff game can be stable. For 2x2 symmetric games I characterize preferences that are stable.
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BASE: Possajennikov, Alexandre

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