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Greediness and equilibrium in congestion games

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  • Kuniavsky, Sergey
  • Smorodinsky, Rann

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We study the class of congestion games for which the set of Nash equilibrium is equivalent to the set of strategy profiles played by greedy myopic players. We show these two coincide iff such games are played over extension-parallel graphs.

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  • Kuniavsky, Sergey & Smorodinsky, Rann, 2013. "Greediness and equilibrium in congestion games," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 121(3), pages 499-503.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:121:y:2013:i:3:p:499-503
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.10.005
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    Keywords

    Congestion games; Equilibrium; Greediness;
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    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games

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