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Stochastically perturbed payoff observations in an evolutionary game

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  • Li, Li
  • Xu, Zichun
  • Wang, Hui

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Allowing there to be imperfect information with respect to payoffs is shown to affect the equilibria of an evolutionary game. For the coordination game, we find that, the replicator dynamic with Brownian motion need not result in coordination.

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  • Li, Li & Xu, Zichun & Wang, Hui, 2020. "Stochastically perturbed payoff observations in an evolutionary game," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 192(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:192:y:2020:i:c:s0165176520301294
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109167
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