TY - JOUR
T1 - Completely uncoupled dynamics and Nash equilibria
AU - Babichenko, Yakov
N1 - Funding Information: ✩ This paper is part of the Ph.D. research of the author at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The author wishes to thank his supervisor, Sergiu Hart, for his support and guidance. This research was partially supported by ERC grant 0307950, and by ISF grant 0397679. E-mail address: [email protected].
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - Completely uncoupled dynamics are a repeated play of a game, where every period each player knows only his own action set and the history of his own past actions and payoffs; thus, he does not know anything about the other player's actions and payoffs. The main contributions of the present paper are the following. First, there exist no completely uncoupled dynamics that lead to almost sure convergence of play to pure Nash equilibria in almost all games possessing pure Nash equilibria. Second, the above result does not hold for Nash ε-equilibrium: we exhibit completely uncoupled dynamics that lead to almost sure convergence of play to Nash ε-equilibrium.
AB - Completely uncoupled dynamics are a repeated play of a game, where every period each player knows only his own action set and the history of his own past actions and payoffs; thus, he does not know anything about the other player's actions and payoffs. The main contributions of the present paper are the following. First, there exist no completely uncoupled dynamics that lead to almost sure convergence of play to pure Nash equilibria in almost all games possessing pure Nash equilibria. Second, the above result does not hold for Nash ε-equilibrium: we exhibit completely uncoupled dynamics that lead to almost sure convergence of play to Nash ε-equilibrium.
KW - Completely uncoupled dynamics
KW - Nash equilibria
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U2 - 10.1016/j.geb.2012.06.004
DO - 10.1016/j.geb.2012.06.004
M3 - مقالة
SN - 0899-8256
VL - 76
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - Games and Economic Behavior
JF - Games and Economic Behavior
IS - 1
ER -