Brown's Original Fictitious Play

Ulrich Berger ()

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Abstract: What modern game theorists describe as 'fictitious play' is not the learning process George W. Brown defined in his 1951 paper. His original version differs in a subtle detail, namely the order of belief updating. In this note we revive Brown's original fictitious play process and demonstrate that this seemingly innocent detail allows for an extremely simple and intuitive proof of convergence in an interesting and large class of games: nondegenerate ordinal potential games.

Keywords: Fictitious Play; Learning Process; Ordinal Potential Games (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-evo and nep-gth
Date: 2005-03-21
Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 12
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Journal Article: Brown's original fictitious play (2007)
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