An Evolutionary Trade Network Game with Preferential Partner Selection

Leigh Tesfatsion ()

Computing in Economics and Finance 1996 from Society for Computational Economics

Abstract: An evolutionary Trade Network Game (TNG) is proposed for studying the interplay between evolutionary game dynamics and preferential partner selection in various market contexts with distributed adaptive agents. The modular form of the TNG facilitates experimentation with alternative specifications for trade partner matching, trading, expectation updating, and trade strategy evolution. Experimental results obtained using a C++ implementation suggest that the conventional optimality properties used to evaluate agent matching mechanisms in static market contexts may be inadequate measures of optimality from an evolutionary perspective.

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Working Paper: AN EVOLUTIONARY TRADE NETWORK GAME WITH PREFERENTIAL PARTNER SELECTION (1996)
Working Paper: An Evolutionary Trade Network Game with Preferential Partner Selection (2002)
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