Conjectural variations in aggregative games: An evolutionary perspective

Alex Possajennikov ()

Mathematical Social Sciences, 2015, vol. 77, issue C, 55-61

Abstract: Suppose that in symmetric aggregative games, in which payoffs depend only on a player’s strategy and on an aggregate of all players’ strategies, players have conjectures about the reaction of the aggregate to marginal changes in their strategy. The players play a conjectural variation equilibrium, which determines their fitness payoffs. The paper shows that only consistent conjectures can be evolutionarily stable in an infinite population, where a conjecture is consistent if it is equal to the marginal change in the aggregate determined by the actual best responses. In the finite population case, only zero conjectures representing aggregate-taking behavior can be evolutionarily stable.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2015.07.003

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