Some First Results for Noncooperative Pregames: Social Conformity and Equilibrium in Pure Strategies

Myrna Wooders (), Reinhard Selten and Edward John Cartwright ()

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Abstract: We introduce the framework of noncooperative pregames and demonstrate that for all games with sufficiently many players, there exists approximate (E) Nash equilibria in pure strategies. Moreover, an equilibrium can be selected with the property that most players choose the same strategies as all other players with similar attributes. More precisely, there is an integer K, depending on E but not on the number of players so that any sufficiently large society can be partitioned into fewer than K groups, or cultures, consisting of similar players, and all players in the same group play the same pure strategy. In ongoing research we are extending the model to cover a broader class of situations, including incomplete information.

Keywords: GAMES; INFORMATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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